Robot Chair
From: NASA Tech Briefs Insider - 03/20/2007

Engineers at the Humanoid Robot Research Center (Taejon, S. Korea) have
constructed the prototype HUBO-FX1, a human-riding "robotic chair" capable of
carrying a person or a load of 100 kg. The user sits in a chair structure
mounted on two robot legs, and controls ambulatory motion by way of a
joystick. The HUBO-FX1 can walk forward, backward, to the side, and can turn
around. 

Each ankle has a three-axis force/torque sensor that measures a normal force
and 2 moments. Each foot has an inclination sensor that measures the angle of
slope. A rate gyro and inclination sensor for the body stabilizes the robot
as it walks. The HUBO-FX1 is two meters in height and 150 kg in weight. 

Read the entire article at:
http://ohzlab.kaist.ac.kr/robot/fx_intro.html

Links:
Hubo FX-1 Walking Robot Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqQ9B8_jIs

Walking robot makes you even more lazy
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/15/hubofx1_walking.html

Robotic chair
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/03/robotic-chair.html
