Elderly Japanese?

On my recent holiday to Egypt (more on this later) our hotel had one of those strange visits by Japanese tourists. You know, the kind where they are clearly on a whistle stop tours that tick ll the boxes on the been there, seen that, got the t-shirt front, where a group of elderly Jaanese turn up, wander around for a while and then disappear off to the next destination.

Well, anyway it struck me, watching from my poolside vantage point that a lot of old japanese, particularly the men use a kind of low impact way of walking where they seem to have a very precise and measured gait, placing their feet and then moving their weight forward in a slow controlled procession, in exactly the same way as the Sony robot. Which came first I wonder?

Are the aged Japanese tourists really robots? I will ponder this further.