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The Japanese automaker Toyota will not only provide vehicles for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics but will also offer mobility tools.
In a year, Toyota will be the main partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The company, which will equip the Olympiad with its vehicles, actively participates in the Tokyo 2020 Robot Project, a project led by the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee, in association with the government, partners, and experts in robotics. Toyota intends to promote its technological advances during both competitions and even thought to robotize Games mascots. Let's review the workforce of these new mobility actors.
Robots serving athletes ...
During the Games, Toyota will use its ground assistance robot, the FSR ( Field Support Robot ). With autonomous functions, he will operate in the Olympic Stadium and will be able to recover the javelins planted in the lawn, to route them to the launchers. Same thing for the discus and hammer tests. Intelligent, the robot is supposed to reduce the time that the athlete must wait to recover his equipment, and the number of assistants (humans) needed.
They are without a doubt the most " kawaii " (cute) robots of the Tokyo Games. Miraitowa and Someity, the two mascots of the Olympics, will have their declination robot, blue and pink. In addition to welcoming the competitors on the various sites, they will be able to make movements thanks to their articulated arms and their system of return of force. The latter will have a camera capable of recognizing the spectators or athletes nearby, and to interact with them.
If the mascot robots can not talk or move, Toyota is studying the possibility of adapting them to children, to propose models in the trade, since they will be only a dozen to be deployed during the Olympic Games.
... and spectators
The humanoid robot T-HR3 is able to reproduce the sounds and movements of a robot mascot in real-time, to interact with athletes and visitors, even if they are in different places.
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| The T-HR3, the handsome robot boy © Toyota |
The T-TR1, for its part, can be called a mobile telepresence robot. By projecting the image of a user thanks to his camera and his big screen, he allows us to see and to be seen, offering the disabled a new interaction.
Thanks to the Delivery Support Robot ( DSR ), the physically incapable spectators will be able to get food and drink delivered by the robot, after having placed an order on a dedicated tablet, in the various Games venues.
The human support robot HSR ( Human Support Robot ), it will allow people with reduced mobility to be guided to their seats. In addition, it can carry in parallel some light goods such as snacks.
The DSR and HSR robots, 500 in total, will be able to assist more than 1,000 spectators during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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