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  • Dec. 6: Toyota Motor Corp.'s new violin robot performs during a press unveiling in Tokyo. Compared to a virtuoso, its rendition was a trifle stilted and, well, robotic. But Toyota's new robot plays a pretty solid Pomp and Circumstance on the violin. The 152-centimeter (five-foot)-tall all-white robot used its mechanical fingers to push the strings correctly and bowed with its other arm, coordinating the movements well.
  • Dec. 6: Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe smiles with the Japanese automaker's new violin robot, left, and Robina robot during a press unveiling in Tokyo. Robina robot, a legless robot-on-wheels, has already been working as a guide at Toyota's showroom at its headquarters since earlier this year.
  • Dec. 6: Another view of Watanabe, Robina and the digital Paganini.
  • Dec. 6: Another shot of the violin-playing robot doing its thing.
  • Dec. 6: A taller view of the violin robot.
  • Dec. 6: Like a certain battery-powered bunny, it just keeps going and going.
  • Dec. 6: A Toyota employee riding on the Japanese automaker's new wheelchair-like 'mobility robot' rolls over an uneven floor to show its ability to secure the passenger's balanced ride during a press unveiling in Tokyo.
  • Dec. 6: And he's still riding around on the 'mobility robot.'

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