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Toyoda Gosei

When I think of airbags, I picture them inside the car. But what if we equipped cars with outer airbags to protect pedestrians?

That’s exactly what Toyoda Gosei (an offshoot of Toyota) has done with these prototypes: they’ve equipped cars with camera and radar sensors to detect pedestrians and (presumably) activate the outer airbags to protect anyone within range of the car…

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June 6th, 2008 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

more stupid robot tricks

filed under: robotics | strange and wonderful

Toyota

I guess that Sony and Honda’s Dancing robots weren’t enough proof that designing humanoid robots was a waste of time and money….

Toyota has now developed a Trumpet playing robot. The world is saved!..

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