Toyota Unveils 'Winglet' Personal Robot Range

Toyota Winglet S Robot
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these things look about as useful as a fart in a divers helmet

August 4, 2008 3:32 pm

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sensei

Anything you can do Segway, I can do better.

August 4, 2008 8:12 pm

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Panuzzi

I guess Segway failed due to the fact it wasn't advertised as a Health contributor. I think Toyota has better chance here.

August 4, 2008 8:13 pm

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thamzn

The guy who invented the Segway, Dean Kamen, claimed the aparatus would solve the world's personal transport problems. It hasn't. At the sticker price it only solved the question of sense and cents. Plus all the bans all over the world didn't help it either.

August 4, 2008 8:36 pm

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DeleteThisAccount

I think the problem was less in the marketing and more in the cost of the technology at the time. Had he waited until Lithium-Ion batteries are in mass production he could have sold them for peanuts. Not to mention Toyota wouldn't have had the chance to steal the idea as the Japanese so often do.

August 5, 2008 8:41 am

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CheeseGrinder

with a top speed of 6km/h and a range of 5-10 km, why would you bother? just walk or ride a bike fatties.

August 5, 2008 12:32 am

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Homerlovesbeer

Yup Cheesegrinder......the last thing the world needs is a way to get fatter and exercise less. Ban it now I say and save our health systems :-)

August 5, 2008 11:47 pm

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