Toyota Human Support Robot

Toyota's single-arm mobile-manipulation robot for home care, widely used in household-service research.

HSR is a life-assistance robot that Toyota released in 2012, meant to help elderly or mobility-limited people with small daily tasks, and it can also be operated remotely by a family member or caregiver. It's built as a cylindrical mobile base with a single arm: the base is 430 mm in diameter, the body height adjusts between 1,005 and 1,350 mm, it weighs about 37 kg, the arm reaches about 600 mm, its maximum payload is 1.2 kg, and its top speed is 0.8 km/h. In 2015, Toyota founded the HSR developer community, supplying the robot to universities and research institutions that share software with each other. Because its scale is close to household furniture and it can open doors and pick things up, it's become a common platform for household-service and mobile-manipulation research, and it's reportedly also used as a standard platform in RoboCup@Home.

ExampleResearchers use an HSR in a simulated home environment to do tidying tasks like picking clutter up off the floor and putting it in a box.

Also called

Human Support Robot

Related

Service Robot · Mobile Manipulation · Mobile Manipulator · Household Tasks · RoboCup · Toyota Research Institute

Sources

Toyota: HSR Developers' Community

As of

2016-04