Toyota's Human Support Robot Adds Comfort To Independent Living

Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation aka TMC has unveiled a special robot to offer life support to those who live alone. Toyota calls it a Human Support Robot (HSR) and it can roam around your home for you, open curtains, pick up objects around you and keep your home neat and clean.

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The HRS operates via voice commands and also through a tablet with a special app. Toyota engineers put a lot of through in designing the robot and even build it to operate carefully. The movements of robots are soft, gentle and secure so that it doesn't accidentally hurt the user. There's no major force while moving the body or the arm of the robot. It has the ability to host a tablet on the top of its body so that others can communicate with the owner of the robot via video calls over skype. Several experiments were conducted at the Yokohama Rehabilitation Center to test the usefulness of the robot in 2011 and the feedback was incorporated in the latest design of the HSR.

The robot is quite compact in size which makes it easier to move it across the compact Japanese homes. The overall body diameter is about 370 mm. It offers 500 mm of lifting range and weighs about 32 Kg. The robotic arm of HSR can pick up objects < 130mm wide that weigh no more than 1.2 Kg. Check out official report on the robot on following source link.

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