Tokyo, Aug 22, 2007: Once again Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) came up with their excellencies. TMC announced today that they has developed a tour guide robot that will escort visitors around the various displays of Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan from August 27.
This new Toyota Partner Robot are wheeled model type. Designed specially to guiding visitors and providing explanations of exhibits.
This robot are able to autonomous motion, allowing the robot to move toward a destination while avoiding obstacles. It's jointed fingers, allowing the robot to sign autographs and able to verbal communication which allowing the robot to interact with visitors. The image recognition technology embedded allowing the robot to recognize visitors' nametags and direct its explanations to them directly.
Looking to Toyota's achievement track record in robotic research from several back years, we should find they're developing in three type of robot: walking, rolling & mountable.
The best of all, Toyota focused to developing partner robots to function as personal assistants for humans that will support people in their daily lives and to help create a healthy and comfortable society in the future.
Link: Now you can see Toyota Partner Robot in action
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