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I think Honda and Toyota are designing these devices for their growing elderly population in Japan.
by foomarks 16y ago
I think Honda and Toyota are designing these devices for their growing elderly population in Japan.
- aneesh 16y agoIt looks like it may be difficult to mount & balance yourself on this if your mobility is limited. See the few seconds starting at 1:13 in the video.
- olaf 16y agoMany elderly suffer from amyotrophia, I doubt this being usefull device, except for people which are disabled.
- shin_lao 16y agoDoes it look like a device convenient to use for an elder or someone disabled?
- patio11 16y agoWhile Honda, Toyota, and many companies in the Japanese robotics space do devote quite a lot of resources to thinking about the elderly population, a significant amount of the R&D work done is not done with the intent of being immediately productizable, but rather to do basic R&D and to fly the company flag. (See Asimo or, indeed, any robot which looks remotely like a human. Or the gigantic eight-legged spider robot who existed to wave a large fan at people that my tech incubator made, which existed to say "Look at us, we're capable of making a gigantic semi-autonomous eight legged robot with one functional limb which you could mount all sorts of things that are not cooling devices on.")