MIT Builds Voice-Controlled Robotic Wheelchair
From: Robotics Trends - 04/16, 2014
By: Dylan Love

Wheelchair can understand natural, conversational language that users feed it
through a standard headset and microphone.

Working out of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Matt Walter and Sachi Hemachandra have built a robotic wheelchair for people
with progressive neurological conditions that understands basic voice
commands for navigating around a space.

After building a map of its surroundings and being taught the location of
each room — where the kitchen is, where the bathrooms are - the wheelchair
can understand natural, conversational language that the users feed it
through a standard headset and microphone.

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