Tag: MOBILITY

In Japan, as in most of East Asia, the elderly have always enjoyed an "elevated" status in society. A new chair, however, makes that hierarchical tradition clearer -- and more literal -- than ever. Designed by researchers at Kobe University, a prototype chair unveiled at a recent Osaka robot fair uses a bed of air cushions and air-hockey-like jetstreams to hover above the ground and transport ...

For a company most famous for its wheeled products, Honda certainly seems quite focused on things to help people get about on their own two feet, introducing another new prototype machine with just that in mind. Unlike the earlier Walking Assist Device, which is intended just to help patients re-learn how to walk, the new (and cunningly named) Walking Assist Device with Bodyweight Support System ...