Toyota robot to keep elderly mobile, one step at a time


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 13 Apr 2017

Toyota Motor Corp's rehabilitation robot Welwalk WW-1000 is designed to aid in the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb paralysis.

TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp said it will commercialise rehabilitation robots later this year when it makes its robotic walk assist system available for rent, joining Honda Motor Co in marketing mobility devices for Japan's ageing population. 

A decade after it began developing rehabilitation robots, the world's number two automaker  said the system would be ready to hit the market by the end of 2017, two years after Honda launched a similar device.

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