Fans watching Team USA lose to France on television during the Tokyo Olympics witnessed an unusual scene unfold at halftime: a metallic humanoid robot wheeling out onto the court for a special ...

Toyota's humanoid robot, CUE6, amazed onlookers by achieving the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot. The AI-powered robot completed a seemingly difficult shot from 24.55 meters (80 feet 6 ...

TOKYO --Compared to a virtuoso, its rendition was a trifle stilted and, well, robotic. But Toyota's new robot plays a pretty solid "Pomp and Circumstance" on the violin. The five-foot-tall all-white ...

Carmakers are at a crossroads, as the automotive industry is about to change, in more ways than one. Not only is everybody pushing for a switch to electric drivetrains, but some of the companies doing ...

If robots took over the world, they’d start by invading our orchestra pits. As demonstrated, Toyota’s new alien-looking robot can play violin almost flawlessly, adding to the company’s belief that ...

In the world of robotics, we’ve often seen robots rely on their mechanical hands to pick up and manipulate objects. But that approach doesn’t quite capture the full essence of how humans interact with ...

Monday’s Toyota CES press conference was all about Woven City, the carmaker’s planned community at the base of Mount Fuji. Robotics will undoubtedly play a major role in the company’s bid to automate ...

TOKYO (AP) — It can’t dribble, let alone slam dunk, but Toyota’s basketball robot hardly ever misses a free throw or a 3-pointer. The 207-centimeter (six-foot, 10-inch)-tall machine made five of eight ...

Toyota Motor chairman Akio Toyoda shakes hands with Hyundai Motor Group executive chair Chung Euisun. Credit: Hyundai Motor Company. Toyota and Hyundai have announced a deepened partnership to advance ...

The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) just unveiled a series of robots that are meant to help senior citizens manage housework that might otherwise give them trouble. Gramps probably isn’t that into the ...

Apparently, transparent and reflective surfaces are confusing for robots, and that's a problem companies designing machines for household chores need to overcome. Toyota has developed a solution for ...