Toyota’s vision of robots  is to build ” robots that embody “kindness” and “intelligence” and that will be able to assist with human activities in applications such as ” elderly care, manufacturing, and mobility in the near future”

Some of the Technologies employed include developing ” artificial lips that move with the same finesse as human lips, which, together with robot’s` hands, enables the robots to play trumpets like humans do.

For the Mobiro personal mobility robot “Toyota came up with the new stabilizing technologies for robots. A small, light-weight and low-cost high-precision-sensors, developed based upon automotive sensor technology, are used as an attitude sensor that detects a tilt of a robot”… <More>.

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