Weekend Fun: Toyota’s Violin Playing Humanoid Robot

Posted on Dec 9, 2007

Toyota, sick and tired of having Honda take all the robot spot-light, trotted out their own invention this past week to play the violin to a select press group. The 5-foot-tall all-white robot played a pretty-stiff rendition of “Pomp and Circumstance” using one hand with specially-developed, mechanical fingers to press the strings correctly, and the other to bow. Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said robotics will be a...