It is generally believed that the interest of automakers in the subject of robotics was due primarily to the desire to automate the process of driving vehicles. However, Honda has long been experimenting with improving the skills of its robot ASIMO, and some time ago, related developments have found application in creating "smart exoprostheses" that allow people who undergo rehabilitation to recover mobility of lower extremities faster and learn to keep balance while walking.
Toyota Corporation, as noted by the Reuters agency, announced its readiness to launch the release of similar "smart feet", which it developed for ten years. This particular robot can be rented for the rehabilitation period of the patient who suffered a trauma or stroke. Toyota sees no special problems in expanding the range of products offered. More than a hundred years ago, the company produced weaving looms, and only then switched to cars. Moreover, now in Japan, a number of problems are maturing, pushing car manufacturers to produce medical robots: the population is rapidly aging, and not so many young people are not so willing to buy cars for personal use.
Every fourth citizen of Japan is now over 65, and the demographic failure does not allow providing all the elderly citizens with personal assistants, and the Japanese are trying to solve this problem by creating robots. Toyota is ready to continue developing in this direction, and to become a robot manufacturer.
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