Automated wheelbarrow[edit source]
Besides the ideas for the improving of the general wheelbarrow, I also had an idea regarding its automation. This may allow to decrease costs in larger projects (as no people will need to be hired for their transport). It would be based on the Elektor Wheelie (http://www.elektor.com/magazines.46742.lynkx?filterGuid=a304c412-9a5d-433e-b92a-a58dc1744964) or the Audi Snook or Honda U3-X undercarriage. Automation may perhaps be done based on the Marathon Robotics Rover system, or perhaps IAI might be intrested in providing its REX-system software for the device (see http://www.iai.co.il/32981-40059-en/MediaRoom_News.aspx) KVDP 10:01, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
- After reading "The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World by Brian M. Fagan", I found that the wooden ox design ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_ox ) would be more efficient than the current wheelbarrow designs. This, as the arms are no longer used (arms being more energy-inefficient than legs). I think that besides the automated wheelbarrow, it "might" be a useful design. However, the wooden ox-wheelbarrow would then be best used together with the "climbing harness" allready mentioned at my http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Multipurpose_clothing article. Also, the wheelbarrows would need to be used by pairs as 1 person would be needed to move the wheelbarrow, and another would unload and attach/reattach the wheelbarrow to the climbing harness.
KVDP 14:17, 21 November 2010 (UTC)