Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) unveiled a new humanoid robot on Thursday that is designed to lead the elderly in physical exercises.
As we all know that good robots have done very amazing activities for us like they serve us drinks, they build our cars, they teach our young children but now they have done a great job by helping our oldsters with the physical therapy. Taizo, which means “calisthenics”, stands over 24-inches tall and weighs 15.5 pounds is a delightful chap, along with a bulbous visage as well as a fun, plushy space suit. This robot has a friendly appearance and designed to motivate elderly people to engage in more physical exercise and operates for about two hours on a single charge.
Taizo robot has great features of:
• Voice recognition
• A library of thirty different exercises
• 24-inches or 70-centimeter tall
• Weighs 15.5 pounds
• Dressed in a velvety space suit
• Sporting a goofy grin
The most important thing about Taizo is that it has very basic language skills that are enough to understand and has simple spoken commands and they lead a group in exercise.
The 7-kilogram mechanical exercise instructor with 26 joints in its body can smoothly demonstrate around 30 different moves for others to imitate. And also while sitting in a special chair, Taizo does most of its exercises but it can also stand up to perform some nice activities. The developers are planning to start selling and renting also the robots next year for around 800,000 yen ($8,000 approx) each.
