Toyota expanding into health care with machines to help sick, elderly get around From: Washington Post - 10/31/2011 Toyota unveiled its ambitions for high-tech health care Tuesday, displaying experimental robots that the auto giant says can lift disabled patients from their hospital beds or help them walk. The company aims to commercialize products such as its "independent walk assist" device sometime after 2013 - seeking to position itself in an industry with great potential in Japan, one of the world’s most rapidly aging nations. Read the entire article at: http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/business/technology/toyota-expanding-into-health-care-with-machines-to-help-sick-elderly-get-around/2011/10/31/gIQAYreyaM_story.html Links: Robot photo gallery http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/robots-mania/2011/09/28/gIQAd8Hc6K_gallery.html Toyota shows machines to help sick, elderly move http://in.news.yahoo.com/toyota-shows-machines-help-sick-elderly-move-033258898.html Eiichi Saitoh http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/eiichi-saitoh-professor-rehabilitation-medicine-steps-down-independent-photo-062840786.html Contributed by Drew Nelson