What would you call it he or it? Well, it doesn't matters. It’s TOPIO 3.0 and it is developed by TOSY which is a Vietnam's company. TOPIO is abbreviated to TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot and it’s a bipedal (walk by two legs) robot. It is basically designed to play table tennis. And of course it can play table tennis against a human being.
It was under development since 2005 and various versions of TOPIO were released before this latest version TOPIO 3.0 in 2009 and it was publicly demonstrated on 25th November 2009 at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition, Japan
The Tech: TOPIO has 39 degrees of freedom, and this humanoid uses two 200-fps cameras to detect the ball, of course while playing. It uses the Artificial intelligence to detect the incoming and choose the best return shot. And yeah the artificial intelligence system allow it to learn and improve its skills while playing.
Specifications:
Weight- 120kg
Height- 6.2 feet
Legs- 2 (Interestingly TOPIO 1.0 had 6 legs)
DOF- Total 39 (Degree of freedom defines independent joints capable of movement)
· Two in the head
· Seven in each arm
· Six in each leg (2 legs)
· One in the torso
· Five in each hand
President’s Talk: Ho Vinh Hoang is the TOSY's president and his goal is to see the TOPIO in every home, not just to play ping-pong only but to do the household tasks.
Final Words: Doesn't matter how does it go for TOSY but these guys really build a cool robot with a great look not very close to the human look but they are excellent at the robot type. I mean if you compare it to Honda ASIMO which has the fines look I guess then TOPIO deserves the place near beside ASIMO.
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