Toyota Unveils Helpful Human Support Robot

cylonlover writes "Toyota has unveiled a new assistant robot designed to help the disabled live more independently. Called the Human Support Robot (HSR), it represents the latest initiative in Toyota's Partner Robot program and is intended to help out around the home by fetching things, opening curtains, and picking up objects that have fallen to the floor. The HSR can be controlled using a simple graphical user interface via tablet PC. It can also wear a tablet atop its head, which would allow caregivers and family members to communicate with the robot's owner over Skype or other services. But unlike recent telepresence robots including the recently announced iRobot RP-VITA, the HSR has an arm and gripper for doing the simple tasks we often take for granted."

Re:Hybrid only?

[MisterMidi]

Carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide. And given the size of the brains [wikipedia.org], I doubt it will be much.

Another good story about these

[marcopo]

"The Caretaker", by Ken Liu, recently featured on escape pod [escapepod.org] is quite relevant.