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Toyota unveiled today a new robot -Mobility Robot the newest additions to its Toyota Partner Robots being developed to support people’s everyday life. The mobility robot, which is capable of autonomous movement over uneven ground and around obstacles, provides transport in places where people usually walk. Toyota Mobility Robot can negotiate steps with independent vertical movement of left and right wheels, allowing it to assist in short-distance personal mobility. The Toyota Mobility Robot is capable of following a person, allowing it to function as a porter and also is capable of avoiding obstacles to reach its owner and of autonomously transporting its owner. The Mobility Robot has a traveling range of 20km on one hour of battery charge and can travels at up to 6km/h and capable of traversing a 10-degree gradient.

Toyota announced today that it aims to realize practical use trial of Mobility Robot at a Toyota-related facility from the latter half of 2008. The Toyota Mobility Robot measures 1,000mm (at rest); 1,100mm (in motion) and weigh 150kg.

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Korea has developed an unmanned aircraft that can take off vertically by spinning its propellers like a helicopter and then level off by tilting them forward. The Smart UVA Development Center under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said Thursday that it successfully tested the unmanned tilt-rotor aerial vehicle at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s aviation center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province on Nov. 22. A combination of helicopter and propeller plane, tilt-rotor aircraft can “tilt” their “rotors” depending on flight conditions. They can land and take off without runways like helicopters by tilting the rotors up, and travel long distances at a high speed like propeller planes by tilting the rotors forward while in the air.

The center’s director, Lim Cheol-ho, said that unmanned tilt-rotor planes are suitable for Korea’s mountainous geography which is ill-suited for runways. The planes will be used for various purposes such as weather and environment surveys, forest-fire fighting and transportation monitoring, he added.

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