Toyota taps AI start-up to jump start home robot plans

TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp has designs on making robot helpers for your home, and has enlisted a Japanese startup that specialises in AI to jump-start its plan. Toyota sees robots as part of that effort, particularly in Japan, where it aims to have them in homes and hospitals to support one of the world’s fastest ageing populations. For the project announced on Wednesday, Toyota said it would provide a dozen units of its Human Support Robot, or HSR, to Preferred Networks. Preferred Networks is already using the robot as a platform for its advanced artificial intelligence software. Toyota has been working on service robots since 2004, and has a number of models under development.

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