"Robot" artificial legs

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese writer born without arms and legs and best known for his 1998 best-selling memoir, "No One's Perfect," is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2019. Ototake has taken part in a project to enable him to walk by himself using electrically operated "robot" artificial legs developed by a Sony laboratory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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