For over 20 years my mom was a registered nurse and from that experience she came up with an idea to invent a bed. I admire her for pursuing it because how many of us say it sure would be nice if there was something like this but don't do anything about it. My mom barely breaks 100 lbs but she had to push 200+ lb patients all over the hospital in a bed that itself weighed 400 lbs. Over the years patients only seemed to get heavier and it really took a toll on her body. So now that she is retired she decided to do something about it and invent a bed that would drive itself. Currently there are beds that do this but they don't steer very well and they are so expensive that usually hospitals only rent them. She wanted to make a bed that the driving mechanism could be retrofitted onto any existing bed and that would be able to turn corners.
She contacted the College of Engineering and three students selected her bed to work on for their senior project. They applied for a some grants that gave them a couple thousand dollars to produce this prototype. The bed isn't perfect by any means I think it is expected for something like this to take longer than two semesters and more money then what they had, but it I still think it's awesome. The bed can go go crazy fast I bet you could drive it down the road haha! It's not so realistic I don't think you would want it to go that fast in a hospital, but it's fun to play with. It turns corners really well as shown in this video and also note there is approx 500 lbs on the bed. GO MOM!!!!
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