I’ll never forget trying out an early version of the virtual reality treadmill in a hotel suite many E3s ago.
The system, which features a concave platform and slippery shoes, was clever enough to influence Ready Player One’s take on the space.
HoloTile — which recently made its YouTube debut at the end of a video honoring Disney Research fellow, Larry Smoot – is an extremely clever and honestly quite elegant solution to some of these issues.
“I can walk on this omni directional floor in any direction I want,” Smoot says in the video.
If it’s going to see the light of day, it seems likely that it will be as part of a Disney Parks VR experience.
The retail giant announced today the launch of “badge pay,” a new option that will initially bring Just Walk Out technology to a hospital setting.
With the launch, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff will be able to grab food and beverages from their hospital’s Just Walk Out store by scanning their employee badges.
The employees will also be able to look up their receipts and see their account balance in their hospital’s badge pay web portal or mobile app, Amazon explains.
At this location, Amazon worked with healthcare automation provider CBORD on the implementation of the tech at the hospital store.
The Candler Hospital’s store, meanwhile, is operated by food and nutrition provider Morrison Healthcare, which serves over 950 hospitals and healthcare systems.
If you follow the world of robotic exoskeletons with any frequency, you’re no doubt aware of the two primary categories.
The latter category is often the domain of soft robotic exoskeletons – those with fabric parts designed to be more of a day-to-day assistive accessory.
In the case of people with Parkinson’s disease, “freezing” is a frequent issue that impacts the ability to walk, while increasing the likelihood of falls.
New research from a joint team from Harvard and Boston University, published in Nature Medicine, demonstrates how soft robotic exoskeletons can address the issue.
Without any special training, the patient was able to walk without any freezing indoors and with only occasional episodes outdoors.
From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense that we’re not built particularly well for humanoid robots. We’re on the wrong side of the human-ape line of development; while apes are…
