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The Tug as shown in Fig.10 becomes a popular means for hospitals to move large cabinets of
stock from place to place for carrying blood and other patient samples from nurse stations to
various labs.
Fig. 10. The Tug, Aethon's Automated Robotic Delivery System
Fig. 11. BigDog developed by Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics released video footage of a new generation BigDog as shown in Fig.11
able to walk on icy terrain and recover its balance when kicked from the side.
3. Related work
3.1 Development of the mobile robot system to aid the daily life for physically
handicapped (Interface using internet browser)
Yoshiyuki Takahashi and et al. from Shibaura institute of technology developed the mobile
robot system (Yoshiyuki Takahashi, et. al., 1998), which could bring daily using objects
putting them somewhere in the room with semi-automatically control as shown in Fig.12.
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