Partner robots — From development to implementation

Author

Ota, Yasuhiro

Author_Institution

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 May 2010

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

16

Abstract

Toyota has been developing industrial robots since the 1980s. In recent years, man-machine cooperative robots that assist people s skills have gradually been put into practical use. Now, Toyota is further evolving a number of robot technologies born at production sites to develop Partner Robots that work in harmony with people. Toyota is specifically considering four development areas: (1) manufacturing support, (2) short-distance personal mobility, (3) nursing and healthcare support, and (4) support for work around the home. Some scenes of Partner Robot operation in each of these four fields are mentioned, as well as the essential technologies embedded in Toyota Partner Robots, are then introduced in the presentation. Lastly, issues that need to be resolved to bring these robots into truly useful and practical in our society are described.

Keywords

cooperative systems; health care; industrial robots; man-machine systems; Toyota; healthcare support; industrial robots; man-machine cooperative robot; manufacturing support; nursing; partner robot; short-distance personal mobility; Man machine systems; Manufacturing industries; Medical services; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Production facilities; Robot kinematics; Service robots; Toy industry; Toy manufacturing industry; Partner Robots; healthcare; personal mobility;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human System Interactions (HSI), 2010 3rd Conference on

Conference_Location

Rzeszow

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7560-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSI.2010.5514594

Filename

5514594