Robot suit for rent to help walk

Cyberdyne, a new company in Tsukuba outside Tokyo, will mass-produce HAL, or Hybrid Assistive Limb. Two people demonstrated the suits at the company's headquarters yesterday.

A demonstration video also showed a partially paralyzed person getting up from a chair and walking slowly wearing the HAL suit.

"We are ready to present this to the world," said Yoshiyuki Sankai, a University of Tsukuba professor who designed HAL.