{"id":827,"date":"2012-05-01T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/babies-driving-robot-wheelchairs-super-cute-video\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:53:00","slug":"babies-driving-robot-wheelchairs-super-cute-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/babies-driving-robot-wheelchairs-super-cute-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies driving robot wheelchairs (super cute video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/uWgekeURa-g\/babys-first-biotech-robotic.html\">Babies driving robot wheelchairs (super cute video)<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jWISOvOiT0o\">Video Link<\/a>] <br \/>Here&#8217;s an amazing feel-good video with which to end your week, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\">National Science Foundation<\/a>. The really awesome footage starts around a minute and a half in. <br \/>&#8220;James C. (Cole) Galloway, associate professor of physical therapy, and Sunil Agrawal, professor of mechanical engineering &#8212; have outfitted kid-size robots to provide mobility to children who are unable to fully explore the world on their own.&#8221; <br \/>The robotic assistance devices are designed to help infants whose mobility and independence is limited by conditions such as autism, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy. <br \/>I understand that these will be among the many exhibits on display at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usasciencefestival.org\/\">USA Science Fest<\/a> at the Washington,  DC Convention Center on Sat., April 28th. Babies probably not included.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=701db8e915a9459a01726fb4c9028599&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=701db8e915a9459a01726fb4c9028599&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/uWgekeURa-g\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies driving robot wheelchairs (super cute video): [Video Link] Here&#8217;s an amazing feel-good video with which to end your week, via the National Science Foundation. The really awesome footage starts around a minute and a half in. &#8220;James C. (Cole) Galloway, associate professor of physical therapy, and Sunil Agrawal, professor of mechanical engineering &#8212; have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}