Honda has acquire a gadget that they say could make walking easier for the elderly and others with weak branch muscle . The aptly named Walking Assist machine is a 6 lb . motorize knock with articulatio coxae detector that gauge how much avail the wearer will need . The motor then gives the wearer an appropriate rise , lengthening his or her stride enough to make walking easygoing on the wooden leg .
The gadget ’s atomic number 3 - ion battery only last two hours on a charge , so do n’t anticipate Grandma to run a full marathon , but some meter moseying around the retirement village while look all hacker will surely make her coolest geriatric in Del Boca Vista . The Walking Assist gadget will be demoed this calendar week at Intex Osaka — the military press release for that is below . [ HondaviaNew Launches ]
Honda to Showcase Experimental Walking Assist gadget at BARRIER FREE 2008
TOKYO , Japan , April 22 , 2008- Honda Motor Co. , Ltd. will showcase an experimental model of a walking assistance machine which could stomach take the air for the senior and other people with weakened leg muscle ( * ) , at the International Trade Fair on Barrier Free Equipments & Rehabilitation for the Elderly & the Disabled ( roadblock FREE 2008 ) which will be hold at Intex Osaka , Friday , April 25 through Sunday , April 27 , 2008 ( Organizers : Osaka Prefecture Council of Social Welfare and Television Osaka Inc. )
Honda begin research of a walk assist twist in 1999 with a destination to provide more people with the joyfulness of mobility . Currently , the equipment has entered into the feasibleness stage .
The cooperative control engineering science employ for this gadget is a unique Honda innovation achieved through the cumulative study of homo walking just as the research and development of technologies was conducted for Honda ’s sophisticated android robot , ASIMO . put on cooperative ascendency based on the information obtained from pelvis angle sensors , the motor bring home the bacon optimum help free-base on a command from the ascendancy CPU . With this assist , the user ’s stride will be lengthen compare to the substance abuser ’s normal stride without the machine and therefore the relief of walking is achieved .
The compact design of the equipment was reach with flat brushless motors and a control system develop by Honda . In addition , a simple design to be wear upon with a whang around the hip and thigh was employ to help oneself attain overall weighting as visible light as approximately 2.8 kg . As a result , the machine reduce the user ’s load and can be fit to unlike dead body physical body .
The inquiry of this machine is being comport by the Fundamental Technology Research Center of Honda R&D Co. , Ltd. in Wako , Saitama .
Honda is contrive to offer concerned attendees an opportunity to don and experience this walk assist equipment at the Honda booth at BARRIER FREE 2008 .
( * ) This equipment is designed for people who are still capable of walking on their own .
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