Walk On, Robotic Tiles
Prof. Hiroo Iwata, of the University of Tsukuba in Japan, has created robotic tiles that can detect where a walker will go next. Each tile has a cover of Kuralon EC, a fabric that is touch sensitive to pressure of a walker's foot. There are sensors to determine the direction, then the information is relayed to a central computer that figures out where the next tile should be placed. Seeing as though Hiroo does research at the VR (virtual reality) Lab, his system would probably best serve in simulators to imitate movement, but we think it would be a nifty application for, say, walking on water.
Via technabob
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Posted by Sheila Franklin at October 2, 2009 8:50 AM
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