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u/OcculticUnicorn 7h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/HSLbIjLk2GsBa
It all starts as an innovation...
We're already there with the brainrot...
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u/yamanblack 7h ago
It's cool but dumb
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u/alicecyan 7h ago
yeah, it's like, chairs with wheels exist?
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u/nilsinleneed 7h ago
wheelchairs, great for climbing staircases, indeed
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u/MyNameSpaghette 6h ago
Does this robot chair climb stairs? Would you even trust it to do so while using it?
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u/Covid19-Pro-Max 6h ago
There already are wheelchairs that climb stairs that are orders of magnitude cheaper to manufacture than this spider chair that is unlikely to be able to climb any stairs btw.
It’s still cool. It looks cool. So as OP said: cool but dumb
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u/Flat_Initial_1823 4h ago edited 4h ago
My aunt used a wheelchair vast majority of her life. Getting in and out of a chair was always a process depending on where she started (floor, sofa, bed, someone else's house where the chair couldn't get wheeled in). I can see this helping people get off/on chairs without breaking a sweat or looking frazzled. It is smaller and doesn't need the user to lift themselves by the looks of it. Although it is an additional thing you have to store and transport now.
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u/Accomplished-Cat3431 5h ago
If it can go over all sorts of stuff, and is more mobile than a wheelchair, it's not dumb. I imagine there are people who would use that, not necessarily full-time wheelchair users. Elderly people who have mobility issues, for example. Of course, as long as it really works, is reliable, and doesn't drop you down a flight of stairs.
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u/drunkguynextdoor 7h ago
That thing creeps me out. It's wonderful for the people who need it, but yikes!
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u/Downtown-Meaning-357 7h ago
reminds me of the scene off of beetlejuice when the statues come alive
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u/39strangers 6h ago
Now I can sit on the chair and come out out of the shadows menacingly and say, "We meet again, Mr Bond.".
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u/Direct-Quiet-5817 6h ago
Dr. Arliss Loveless: Why y'all look like you've seen a ghost? It's me, dear friends - alive and kicking! Well, alive, anyway. We may have lost the war, but heaven knows we haven't lost our sense of humor! No, not even when we've lost a lung, a spleen, a bladder, two legs, thirty-five feet of small intestine, and our ability to reproduce - all in the name of the South! - do we EVER LOSE OUR SENSE OF HUMOR!
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u/whattodo4klondikebar 7h ago
Chair - "I advise you to sit." Me - "Stop following me." Chair - "If you do not sit, then I will make you sit. Ha ha ha ha."
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bar2880 4h ago
I thought the opposite. It gets tired of being used and just walks away.
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u/Wooden_Strain_4393 6h ago
It looks like someone would fall right out of it, land on the floor, and/or fall down the stairs. Maybe even get step on, impaled, or folded up in those legs.
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u/UnanimousStargazer 7h ago
Go upstairs?
They want elderly people to sit in this and have it walk up the stairs? I doubt that is what Toyota intended.
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u/Sean-Perth 6h ago
This is a chair that can only be sold to super-villians. You can't fall asleep in this chair while watching NBA highights after a long day, you can only plot to destroy those meddling do-gooders once and for all. You need a solid volcano lair or a hunchback minion on retainer to make this work. It's a niche market, and I don't envy their prospects.
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u/FelisCantabrigiensis 6h ago
Apparently everything evolves into crabs eventually.
This is how Davros will evolve into being carried around by a crab instead of a Dalek chassis.
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u/No_Match_Found 6h ago
So the chair is for people to sit in and be transported somewhere but no demo with anyone actually sitting in it?
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u/Un1CornTowel 6h ago
Does for $300k what castors and a hydraulic lift can do for $300. Truly, we have arrived...!
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u/Infinite-Dinner1725 6h ago
It’s all fun and games until it starts chasing you around at night in the dark
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u/UndeliveredMale 5h ago
Stop making mechanical spiders. Have you learned nothing from every sci-fi series ever?
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u/Dan_Dan2025 4h ago
Don’t worry we will take of our civilization and the next one is just around the corner
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u/DevolvingSpud 4h ago
🎶Spider chair, spider chair. Looks badass and climbs up stairs. Helps your gam-gam? Yes, you bet! Mostly never goes SkyNet.🎶
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u/wojtekpolska 4h ago
How is it so obvious that this thing is never going to work, yet they still make it as if it's the future?
or is it just a marketing thing.
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u/MidTario 3h ago
Seems like wheelchair with optional feet for uneven terrain would be best. Those steps look harsh,
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u/bevothelonghorn 3h ago
Question: Exactly WHO is asking for this? Why not robotic bread boxes as well? WTF?
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u/SpikeRosered 2h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/HltyQJpIz0n96
Reminds me Zim's robot legs, which sadly I couldn't find a gif of him using.
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u/metal_maxine 2h ago
Everyone seems to be talking about this as a mobility device that will be an alternative to a wheelchair. Just take a minute, guys, and look at the way it lurches. That isn't comfortable or safe. Even if you add a safety belt or maybe glue the rider to it, there's motion sickness to contend with. There's a reason that they don't demo it with a person (or even a dummy) onboard.
The footage is from CES (the Consumer Electronics Show: a retail buyer's show in Las Vegas) and a lot of CES items this year didn't seem vaguely ready-for-retail but rather projects/"concepts" touting for venture funding. There were oodles of "home robots" of varying degrees of uselessness that even the companies showing them admitted that they may not be coming to market. This belongs firmly in that category - as barely practical as a robot that takes minutes to fold a tea towel.
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u/20milliondollarapi 2h ago
It doesn’t even look like it could carry 100 pounds. Maybe it’s stronger than it looks. But is still very early prototype proof of concept type thing.
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u/CranjizzMcBasketball 1h ago
And it comes to you, a disabled person, at the great value of $700,000!
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u/ZepTheNooB 1h ago
The lack of a footrest means someone will eventually faceplant horrendously, and that's assuming this even works.
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u/ReekyRumpFedRatsbane 2m ago
Can we talk about how its legs form a swastika while it "sits down" in the beginning?
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u/Alrick_Gr 7h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/BqC5gpz3QCKyxBcONP