HAL, robot suits, introduced to buses in the Haneda airport

Japan took first step to the future. Haneda airport, one of the big airport in Japan, decided to use robot suits for relieving loads for people to lift heavy baggages. They start to use 10 suits on the bus station in Haneda airport.

What is HAL?

HAL is a robot suit which supports human movements and produced by Cyberdine, a venture company from the Tsukuba university . This suit read electrical signals from human, understand what movement he/she wants, and support him or her. From this mechanism, this robot supports heavily-loaded movements or be used for rehabilitation. You can see HAL's movement in the below video.





This decision was made because they could prove this robot's validity in the test phase. Cyberdine published they will broaden their service to Narita airport which is also one of the big airport in Japan. The future with robots might become closer.