Toyota: "Robotics Will Be a Core Business"
Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said robotics will be a core business for the company in the next couple of years. He also says that Toyota will test out its robots at hospitals, Toyota-related facilities and other places starting next year. And the company hopes to put what it calls “partner robots” to real use by 2010.
Watanabe presented a vision of the future in which wheelchair-like “mobility robots” would offer “bed-to-bed” services to people, including the elderly and the sick, just like cars take people “door-to-door.”
In august they started teaming up with Sony in an effort to leapfrog Honda and their robotics trickery of late.
The pic above is their violin playing version of the more famous child-like Asimo from Honda, though this fella apparently plays a mean ‘Pomp and Circumstance’.
Read more at the Future of Things.
This video shows off a wide array of Toyota bots and a few from other manufacturers.
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