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 Toyota
has developed a tour guide robot that will escort visitors around the
displays in the Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Toyota City in Japan
from 27 August. The newly developed robot is equipped with autonomous
movement capabilities for avoiding obstacles and with jointed fingers,
allowing it to sign autographs. The robot is also able to interact with
visitors through a combination of verbal communication and gestures.
Toyota
has developed a tour guide robot that will escort visitors around the
displays in the Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Toyota City in Japan
from 27 August. The newly developed robot is equipped with autonomous
movement capabilities for avoiding obstacles and with jointed fingers,
allowing it to sign autographs. The robot is also able to interact with
visitors through a combination of verbal communication and gestures.
Toyota
has developed a tour guide robot that will escort visitors around the
displays in the Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Toyota City in Japan
from 27 August. The newly developed robot is equipped with autonomous
movement capabilities for avoiding obstacles and with jointed fingers,
allowing it to sign autographs. The robot is also able to interact with
visitors through a combination of verbal communication and gestures.
Toyota
says it is applying its mobility and manufacturing technologies to
developing ‘Toyota Partner Robots’ to support people in their daily
lives and to ‘help create a healthy and comfortable society in the
future’. Toyota Partner Robots first performed at the Toyota Group
Pavilion during the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi. Since then, Toyota
has focused on the four areas in which it believes robots can be of the
most use to humans: domestic duties, nursing and medical care,
manufacturing, and short-distance personal transport.
Honda has
also invested in creating autonomously mobile robots for functions
other than static manufacturing tasks, with successive generations of
its Asimo robot.
(www.japancorp.net, 22 August)
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