Human Support Robot (HSR) that provide assistance to older adults and people with diabilities is designed by Toyota. HSR, a one-armed mobile robot, designed to work in indoor environment around people. It runs ROS, which is an open source software for robot system integration. It is announced that the HSR runs ROS Fuerte and uses a […]
Making bipedal running motion is a challenging task. Engineers at Toyota achieved not only this but were able to break the speed record for a running bipedal robot. Another addition to the robots physical abilities is balance keeping, such as when pushed backwards, the robot regains it balance and straightens itself up back again. See […]