still no reason why it should cost $2000 and the assumption thats a great deal is ridiculous. i really wish people building this stuff would lose a limb and then some slime ball would offer them assistance for thousands of dollars on top of their medical bills.

This may sound crazy, but this same thing was commercialized in the late seventies during the rise of industrial accidents.

It was then called the Hand-Tuck-It from a company out of Nantucket, MA.

It was the Hand-tuck-it from Nantucket..

Wasn’t there an upright wheelchair at some point? No need for robot arms there.

the upright wheelchair, i think your referring to is the IBOT. I think it cost over $30,000 us.
there are many people that have cervical injuries, where the use of their arm and hand muscles are either non existent compromised.
SO an IBOT still wont open doors.
The first problem i see with this design is , if the person is using a wheelchair, they do not fit through the old size, non ADA door.
The 2000 price tag is ridiculous, as is the price on all of this type of stuff.
A typical wheel chair, the ones that someone would use to try and live a normal life cost around $10,000. They are made to break down quick so that the users can transfer into a car, beak down the chair and put it in the backseat. only those with enough upper body use and strength can do this.

I see bad things coming from giving senior citizens mechs…

$2000 is ridiculously expensive. It’d be much cheaper to just replace the doorknobs in your house to the kind shown on top in the picture (and use a much simpler stick arm, if necessary).

I don’t know about other countries, but in the United States, most public buildings don’t use knobs to open doors. It’s either the same kind I just mentioned or a crash bar.

in 50 years robotic prosthetics will be as common as crutches today

if you want to price anything specific to disability then start at the price it is worth and add a 0 on the end. Wheelchairs that are really a modded pram $12,000, bath chairs made from PVC tubing and “shade cloth” $500… so it would seem $2000 is par for the course …shittingly so }-(