TOPIO ("TOSY PIng Pong Playing RobOt") is a bipedal humanoid robot designed to play table tennis against a human being.[1] It has been developed since 2005 by TOSY, a robotics firm in Vietnam. It was publicly demonstrated at the Tokyo International Robot Exhibition (IREX) on November 28, 2007.[2] TOPIO 3.0 (the latest version of TOPIO) stands approximately 1.88 m tall and weighs 120 kg.[3]
Development history
Specifications
Technologies
- Recognition of fast moving objects
- Artificial Intelligence
- Low Inertia mechanical system
- Fast and accurate movement control
- Balanced bipedal walking
See also
External links
- TOPIO video - YouTube
- "I, the Ping Pong Robot" - Softpedia
- "Ping Pong Playing Robots" - www.robots.net
- "TOPIO - The Ping Pong Playing Robot" - www.robotliving.com
- "Play ping-pong or feed the baby at Tokyo robot fair" - Reuters
References
- A Ping-Pong-Playing Terminator Popular Science, 2010-02-17, retrieved 2022-09-09^
- TOSY TOPIO - Table Tennis Playing Robot DigInfo News, 5 December 2007, retrieved 2007-12-05^
- TOPIO 3.0 at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition 2009. Reuters, retrieved 2009-11-27