Toyota's violin‐playing robot
Abstract
Purpose
The paper aims to report on Toyota's violin‐playing robot and Toyota's strategy for its “partner robot” business for the future.
Design/methodology/approach
The work is based on an interview with the R&D team of Toyota.
Findings
The paper finds that, in view of Toyota's robot business as a core business for the future, the company is devoting huge resources in the development of fundamental technologies that should support service robotics. The violin robot is not the goal of Toyota, but only a demonstration of Toyota's ongoing research and development on dexterity.
Originality/value
The paper elaborates how the violin‐playing robot plays a violin.
Keywords
Citation
Kusuda, Y. (2008), "Toyota's violin‐playing robot", Industrial Robot, Vol. 35 No. 6, pp. 504-506. https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910810909493
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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