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| Toyota Human Support Robot |
With the advances in robotic technology nowadays, time will come when
robots would become normal personal assistants around the home. They
might someday be designed to help humans in some of the mundane daily
tasks such as cleaning the home, guarding it as well as helping keep the
home a happy place to live in. But in some other ways, robots would be
tasked to assist people in order to help them accomplish things faster
and better. Future robots might even be designed to help assist the
disabled such as what the new Toyota Human Support Robot is designed to
do.
Toyota has recently introduced the Human Support Robot or the HSR,
designed to help the elderly and the disabled. Its concept is to aid the
disabled do simple and yet challenging tasks in relation to their own
personal capacity such as picking up things when a person may not be
able to do alone. The prototype robot stands 2.7 feet tall with a body
that lets it extend up to 4.3 feet. It also has a 2.5 foot arm with a
grasping claw that can pick up things carefully and easily.
The Toyota HSR is designed for indoor use and has the ability to
adapt slight changes in the height of different floor areas when moving
about. It can be controlled either by voice recognition or by using a
generic tablet device. The Toyota HSR is scheduled for public exhibition
at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center on September 26 and 28.
Toyota has not provided any details on its price or even battery life so
far. But it is believed to be targeted for public healthcare. But it is
quite possible that it would take a bit longer before this robot
becomes an affordable consumer product that everyone can have at home.
Image Source: Toyota
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