Though Asimo seems like he’d make such a good butler, he (she? It?) is not ready to come home with us yet. But some of what Honda learned in the robot’s 22+ years is helping our future mobility, so we can answer the door ourselves and get our own lemonade. You might say the Stride Management Assist and the Bodyweight Support Assist are Asimo’s offspring!

That’s right. When we can no longer walk around the entire mall as we used to… or we can’t carry our fat butts up the steps… Honda’s got two assistive devices to help us get around. And the prototypes will be unveiled this Monday (April 20, 2009) at the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress in Detroit.