{"id":22299,"date":"2017-09-23T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/As-soon-as-you-see-autonomous-wheelchair-you-think-Well-of-course"},"modified":"2017-09-23T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T08:05:43","slug":"as-soon-as-you-see-autonomous-wheelchair-you-think-well-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/09\/23\/as-soon-as-you-see-autonomous-wheelchair-you-think-well-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"As soon as you see &#8220;autonomous wheelchair&#8221; you think, &#8220;Well, of course.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>As soon as you see &#8220;autonomous wheelchair&#8221; you think, &#8220;Well, of <em>course<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Lidar-equipped autonomous wheelchairs roll out in Singapore and Japan.&#8221; The first is the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, or SMART wheelchair. &#8220;The robot&#8217;s computer uses data from three lidars to make a map. A localization algorithm then determines where the smart chair is on the map. The chair&#8217;s six wheels lend stability, and the chair is designed to make tight turns and fit through normal-size doorframes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A second autonomous wheelchair recently premiered at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, designed by Panasonic and Whill, creator of the Model A Whill wheelchair, a sleek, high-tech wheelchair now on the market in Japan and the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/transportation\/self-driving\/lidar-equipped-autonomous-wheelchairs-roll-out-in-singapore-and-japan\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/transportation\/self-driving\/lidar-equipped-autonomous-wheelchairs-roll-out-in-singapore-and-japan<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        As soon as you see &#8220;autonomous wheelchair&#8221; you think, &#8220;Well, of course.&#8221;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/09\/23\/as-soon-as-you-see-autonomous-wheelchair-you-think-well-of-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}