Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O
From: Popular Science - July 2009 - page 62
By: Corey Binns

At 245 pounds, Japan's Twendy-One is sturdy enough to lift its elderly
patients clear off the ground, and force sensors in its fingertips and
humanlike joints mean it can do it without crushing them. 

In the movies, entrusting human life to robot helpers and sophisticated
machines inevitable ends in fire, destruction and death. But in reality, the
automatons are actually saving lives. We featured six Machines that Heal in
our July issue, one of which is Twendy-One, a Japanese robot nurse straight
out of the comic books built to assists the elderly. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/machines-heal

Links:
Twendy-One Robot could be the new Jeeves
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/twendyone_robot_could_be_the_new_jeeves.php

Twendy-One and wheelchair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNorXg7vITc&feature=related

Twendy-One Robot Is Your Humanoid Helper
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1326

VR Interfaces: Twendy-One
http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Shop/ProductsDisplay/VRInterface.php?ID=71

Revealing the robot programmed to serve you breakfast in bed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1114822/Revealing-robot-programmed-serve-breakfast-bed.html?ITO=1490