Toyota creates a robot that plays the violin

The automaker Toyota intends to market by 2010 several robots able to perform all kinds of practical tasks. Their latest development are two automata: one can play the violin and the other is designed to help people with mobility problems.
Toyota says that to achieve its goal to commercialize robots for everyday tasks you plan to put to work in this field to 200 engineers over the next three years. He also built a factory specifically for these devices, which will be ready next year.In a demonstration held today, the Japanese company has taught a robot that measures five feet and shaped like a humanoid. What sets him apart from other robots is that it is capable of playing music with a violin. It is not your first robot musician, as developed in the past and another who played the trumpet.
It also showed a robot designed to help people with mobility problems in short transport. Looks like a motorized wheelchair.

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