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This week, Korea’s Institute for Machinery and Materials unveiled a neat robotic wheelchair. By creating a compliant wheel that conforms to the terrain around it, these engineers have developed an early version of a wheelchair that can climb stairs and traverse rocky terrain. The design of the wheel was inspired by the surface tension properties…

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This week, Korea’s Institute for Machinery and Materials unveiled a neat robotic wheelchair. By creating a compliant wheel that conforms to the terrain around it, these engineers have developed an early version of a wheelchair that can climb stairs and traverse rocky terrain. The design of the wheel was inspired by the surface tension properties of water droplets, which are rounded by gravity.

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  1. @TheSkyHive

    September 5, 2024 at 12:04 pm

    This is remarkable….thanks for sharing.

  2. @TheSkyHive

    September 5, 2024 at 12:05 pm

    Id love to have one of those wheels on my electric unicycle.

  3. @Darkt0mb5

    September 5, 2024 at 7:58 pm

    ????????????

  4. @sherylclyde5322

    September 7, 2024 at 12:41 am

    No thanks. As a elderly person i will just go without using places that have stairs rather than accomidating cheap businesses that refuse to provide wheelchair access.

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