Toyota Pipes In With Their New Robot
Toyota showed off their new trumpet
playing robot. There's very little information about it right now
and no cutesy robot name yet. The bipedal Toyota bot stands
about 4'
tall and can play "When You Wish Upon a Star" on a trumpet. In Japan
it seems to be very important to have a robot mascot or sidekick to
show off the company's technology. Toyota, not wanting to be outdone
in Japanese company pecking order probably explains why they had to
have a robot too. More Japanese robot competition hopefully means
better robots in our future. Toyota hopes to have a whole robot
band to play for the 2005 World Exposition. With many Japanese
companies like Honda, Sony, Fujitsu also having robots, one wonders
why virtually no American (nor the rest of the world for that matter)
companies haven't any robot mascots?
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