日常の壁を越え、心の壁も越えるモビリティへ
TOYOTA: walk me
「モビリティカンパニーへのフルモデルチェンジに向けて」と題するメッセージを豊田章男社長(当時、現在は会長)が発表したのは2019年12月のこと。これはトヨタ自動車が、ありとあらゆる場所で人とモノを運ぶ役割を担う決意を表明したものだった。そのなかには月面探査車まで含まれるが、一方で、彼らは生活に密着したパーソナルモビリティの実用化にも注力している。ここで紹介する「walk me」は、トヨタ自動車が開発するパーソナルモビリティの一例である。
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Personal mobility is stepping up on 4 legs! The “walk me” concept by @TOYOTA_PR, unveiled at the Japan Mobility Show 2025, is designed to handle stairs, move sideways, and get straight into a car. Would you take it for a ride?
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This is the kind of robotics progress I pay attention to.
Toyota introduced Walk Me, a walking wheelchair that moves on mechanical legs instead of wheels. It can climb stairs, handle rough terrain, and adapt to environments that were never designed to be accessible.
The point is independence. Getting from A to B without asking the world to be perfectly flat.
I have long believed robotics will not be about humanoids.
It will be about task shaped machines, designed around real human constraints.
Walk Me is a good example of that shift.
So here is the question.
If robots are shaped by tasks, not appearances, what should we design next?
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