Honda

The Honda Smart Home US, which was unveiled last week at the University of California (UC), Davis, generates enough solar energy to power both car and home, with a little left over to feed back into the grid.

Practical exoskeletons have moved closer to common usage with the news that Honda has begun leasing 100 of its Walking Assist Devices to hospitals in Japan so that it can monitor and validate their usefulness of the device in the real world.

The technology behind Honda’s ASMIO robot is being used in a device designed to help the partially impaired walk.

Honda recently unveiled its demonstration smart home in Saitama, Japan

Britain held its first free eco-car show in September demonstrating a variety of bicycles, cars and other environmental transport solutions.

Honda has begun work on a home-based solar-powered hydrogen fuel cell refueler small enough to be located in a garage.

One of the stand-outs at the IRex robotics expo in Japan this week was the Yurina Care Robot from Japan Logic Machine. Essentially a robotic bed, the 3.5 million Yen (around US$41,000) Yurina reconfigures electronically, on-the-fly and does 4kmh