Toyota demonstrated a one-armed partner robot on-wheels loaded with sensors and cameras, earlier this year. The R2-D2 lookalike known as HSR, or Human Support Robot, ...

Toyota's third-generation humanoid robot, the T-HR3, reflects the automaker's broad-based exploration of how advanced technologies can help meet people's unique mobility needs.(Toyota) Toyota ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has sold enough cars to put one outside every Japanese home. Now it wants to put robots inside. Well known for its automated assembly lines, Toyota sees a not-so-far-off future ...

Toyota Motor Corp. is harboring big ambitions to become a significant player in the growing market for robots that help the elderly and other people get around in everyday life.

Toyota Motor Corp. has designs on making robot helpers for your home, and has enlisted a Japanese startup that specializes in artificial intelligence to jumpstart its plan.

Toyota wants its partner robots to have human characteristics, such as being agile, warm and kind and also intelligent enough to skillfully operate a variety of devices in the areas of personal ...

Toyota has unveiled a new assistant robot designed to help the disabled live more independently. Called the Human Support Robot (HSR), it represents the latest initiative in Toyota's Partner Robot ...

In addition to its work on the Partner Robot, Toyota is developing a Human Support Robot (HSR) to assist the elderly at home. The cylindrical, 70-pound HSR can be controlled by voice, ...

And Toyota hopes to put what it calls “partner robots” to real use by 2010, Watanabe said. “We want to create robots that are useful for people in everyday life,” he said in Tokyo.

Toyota has developed a new, ... “The Partner Robot team members are committed to using the technology in T-HR3 to develop friendly and helpful robots that coexist with humans and assist them in ...

Toyota remains skeptical about how a partner robot would fare abroad, although it remained open to assessing such interest. The idea of companion robots is already widely accepted in Japan.

Toyota has announced that its humanoid-size robot, the T-HR3, has been controlled successfully through a wireless connection. An improvement on previous generations, a wirelessly controlled T-HR3 ...