Team Engadget got a chance to go fully legs (and crotch) on with Honda's latest nutty invention -- the walking-assist line of robo legs. There are currently two models the company is testing, one which helps with correct stride and assistance for forward movement, and the other which is meant for supporting your weight while doing tasks that require lots of bending at the knee. The former is intended to help the elderly, the disabled and those suffering from muscle or joint weakness walk more easily, and the latter is geared towards workers who are constantly performing leg and knee movements that can cause strain or injury. Since most of the editors at Engadget are unnaturally, monstrously large (like if Frankenstein and The Thing had a child out of wedlock) -- and could therefore only fit into one of the devices -- we brought along our more reasonably sized intern, Kevin Wong, to step up into the other's shoes (which he did with aplomb). Perhaps the most interesting facts we went away with today were about Honda's attitude on their new technology; they seemed adamantly against selling the stride-boosting stilts to the military, but they do plan on selling them at a consumer level (a la car and motorcycle sales), and... they didn't seem too keen on our ideas about outfitting our "gang" with them for help doing murders.
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Legs-on with Honda's walking-assist devices Friday, 08 May 2009
Team Engadget got a chance to go fully legs (and crotch) on with Honda's latest nutty invention -- the walking-assist line of robo legs. There are...
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