1. What do we use robots for?
Violin Playing Robot
What do we use robots for?

2. Toyota
Did you think that all Toyota made were cars?

3. Violin Playing Robot
You are wrong!
Check out this video!

4. Violin Playing Robot
Presented to the public in 2007, his robot bipedal artificial violinist caused quite a stir.
The robot was programmed to play music
But, its purpose could be beneficial.

5. Capability and Motion
The robot has an extremely large range of motion. It is capable of moving in almost any direction; in this case, mimicking human behavior in regards to playing a musical instrument.
17 joints in each hand
Humans have 29 joints in each hand

6. Advantages/Disadvantages
A robot could easily streamline and consolidate tasks
Make things more efficient
Help elderly perform many difficult tasks
Costly
Need to be programmed perfectly
May fail
Tasks aren’t done completely like a human would do it.

7. The True Purpose
This robot was likely built to be a healthcare provider. As the population ages, these robots could provide assistance to many elderly people for many everyday tasks.
Panasonic and iRobot have developed healthcare bots to compete with Toyota.
The production of this robot could provide people with jobs in programming, engineering and development.