{"id":9670,"date":"2009-09-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T09:59:00","slug":"panasonic-robotic-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/9670-panasonic-robotic-bed.html","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic Robotic Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invention is designed to help people with limited mobility maintain an independent lifestyle, the firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, the user can join the family meal by converting the bed into a wheelchair and moving to the dining table without the need of assistance from other people,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic will exhibit the Robotic Bed at a home care and rehabilitation exhibition in Tokyo from September 29 to October 1, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is still a concept model and we will not be selling it soon,&#8221; said Panasonic spokeswoman Yuka Arii. &#8220;We plan to bring it to markets in or after 2015. But we don&#8217;t know the price yet.&#8221; Japan has one of the world&#8217;s oldest populations and faces a constant shortage of care workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=192799\"><strong>Robotic Bed discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#039;s Panasonic has developed a &quot;Robotic Bed&quot; that can transform into a wheelchair to make life easier for elderly and disabled people, it announced Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}