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I think that very soon we may very well purchase a capanion from our local honda or toyota dealer. The Big Three have been at each others egos with their own brainchildren.
Check this out! , Pretty wild indeed
Honda's ASIMO Movie files and info.
Then comes along Toyota!
Japan's top automaker Toyota Motor Corp showed an experimental human-shaped robot with dexterous fingers and mechanical lips that played a simple melody on a trumpet on Thursday.
Toyota president Fujio Cho said there were no plans so far to sell or rent the unnamed robot, which stands 120 centimeters (47 inches) tall and has a lung function that allows it to blow a horn. Toyota refused to say how much it had spent on developing the robot.
At a demonstration at a Tokyo hotel, the robot delivered an accurate but rather uninspired rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star," swaying in time to the music and waving after it was finished.
Toyota officials had little to offer in specifics but said they were serious about using technology developed over the years in industrial robots at its factories to create automatons that carry out chores such as helping care for the elderly and doing assembly-line work.
"We want to make robots that are useful," Cho said, adding that a labour shortage was expected to be a problem in coming years because of the increasing proportion of senior citizens in Japan's population.
Toyota's offering is the latest in a string of robots from Japanese companies that are generally costly but can perform only limited chores, such as sending digital photos from the home to cell phones.
Last week, Tokyo-based robot maker ZMP showed a walking security robot that it said will be mass-produced by the end of the year to sell at 500,000 yen ($4,500).
Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co has a walking and talking robot called Asimo, which it rents for events.
Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp sells a dog-shaped robot that starts at 85,000 yen ($770) yen but has no commercial plans for its toddler-shaped robot that can sing and dance and recently conducted an orchestra.
Toyota, based in Toyota city, central Japan, showed on Thursday a smaller version of the trumpet-playing robot that scuttled around on wheels.
Toyota also showed videos of two other robots -- one that resembled a wheelchair with legs designed to help people get around and another humanoid with legs of wiring that it said was more nimble than existing human-shaped robots.
A more developed version of Toyota's robot will be displayed at an exposition in Aichi, central Japan, next year, including possibly an entire musical band of robots, Cho said.
Then Sony,
The QRIO
Check this out! , Pretty wild indeed
Honda's ASIMO Movie files and info.
Then comes along Toyota!
Japan's top automaker Toyota Motor Corp showed an experimental human-shaped robot with dexterous fingers and mechanical lips that played a simple melody on a trumpet on Thursday.
Toyota president Fujio Cho said there were no plans so far to sell or rent the unnamed robot, which stands 120 centimeters (47 inches) tall and has a lung function that allows it to blow a horn. Toyota refused to say how much it had spent on developing the robot.
At a demonstration at a Tokyo hotel, the robot delivered an accurate but rather uninspired rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star," swaying in time to the music and waving after it was finished.
Toyota officials had little to offer in specifics but said they were serious about using technology developed over the years in industrial robots at its factories to create automatons that carry out chores such as helping care for the elderly and doing assembly-line work.
"We want to make robots that are useful," Cho said, adding that a labour shortage was expected to be a problem in coming years because of the increasing proportion of senior citizens in Japan's population.
Toyota's offering is the latest in a string of robots from Japanese companies that are generally costly but can perform only limited chores, such as sending digital photos from the home to cell phones.
Last week, Tokyo-based robot maker ZMP showed a walking security robot that it said will be mass-produced by the end of the year to sell at 500,000 yen ($4,500).
Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co has a walking and talking robot called Asimo, which it rents for events.
Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp sells a dog-shaped robot that starts at 85,000 yen ($770) yen but has no commercial plans for its toddler-shaped robot that can sing and dance and recently conducted an orchestra.
Toyota, based in Toyota city, central Japan, showed on Thursday a smaller version of the trumpet-playing robot that scuttled around on wheels.
Toyota also showed videos of two other robots -- one that resembled a wheelchair with legs designed to help people get around and another humanoid with legs of wiring that it said was more nimble than existing human-shaped robots.
A more developed version of Toyota's robot will be displayed at an exposition in Aichi, central Japan, next year, including possibly an entire musical band of robots, Cho said.
Then Sony,
The QRIO
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