Honda unveils Experimental Walking Assist Device

The Honda Motor Company on Friday, displayed for the first time a new computerized walking assist machine, designed to help factory workers and to support elderly people in climbing stairs. The machine is the latest addition to walking technology developed by Honda, which developed the first two-legged walking robot called ASIMO, in 2000.
“We used ASIMO’s technology for developing the walking assist device,” Masato Hirose, a senior engineer at Honda Research and Development, told AFP.

The new walking assist …