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Toyota’s vision of “Mobility for All” represents its belief that “mobility” is about overcoming challenges and making dreams come true.
Since announcing to the world its shift to transform from an automobile company to a mobility company in October 2017, this phrase has become a compass by which Toyota sets new challenges, and it is used in all kinds of its activities.
However, 10 years even before that, there were people who were already living by these words. This article tells the story of the doctors and engineers who faced the most fundamental “freedom of movement” for all.
In August this year the cumulative 100th unit of the “Welwalk” rehabilitation assist robot developed by Toyota was completed.
Welwalk is a robot designed to provide rehabilitation support to patients with lower limb paralysis as a result of stroke and other causes. While assisting the movement of limbs that are unable to move freely, Welwalk can display various information on a large monitor in front of patients, with the aim of helping them to walk unaided.
In conventional rehabilitation, it is generally the case that the physiotherapist lifts the patient’s body up to provide support while the patient practices walking, taking care not to let the patient fall. Using this conventional method, it is difficult to objectively observe the patient’s walking condition.
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