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TOSY Robotics

Type	Private
Industry	Entertainment robot Service robot Industrial robot Smart toy
Founded	2004; 18 years ago (2004)
Products	mRobo TOPIO DiscoRobo TOOP AFO
Website	www.tosyrobotics.com

TOSY Robotics specializes in designing and manufacturing robots and smart toys. The most famous products from TOSY Robotics are TOPIO Robot, DiscoRobo, TOOP and AFO.

Brand[]

Technology – Originality – Satisfaction – Yearning

History[]

• 2004: TOSY Robotics was founded.
• 2007: Made its first international appearance in IREX (International Robot Exhibition) in Tokyo, Japan and introduced TOPIO 1.0.^[1]
• 2009: TOPIO 2.0 made an impression at Spielwarenmesse Toy Trade Fair in Nuremberg, Germany; also introduced other smart toys like: BallRobo, TyreRobo & AFO.
• 2011: TOSY TOOP was awarded by Guinness World Records as “The world’s longest-running mechanical spinning top”.
• 2012: Introduced mRobo 1.0 at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held in Las Vegas, US. Worldwide music pop star Justin Bieber was invited by TOSY to come and promote for the robot.^[2]
• 2013: Dancer/choreographer Derek Hough, three-times winner of Dancing with the Stars, attended this CES Trade Fair to promote for the mRobo 2.0.^[3]

Robots[]

mRobo is the combination of a dancing humanoid robot and a speaker.^[4]

• TOPIO

It has been known that ping pong is interesting to roboticists because it requires an understanding of dynamic environments, accurate real-time vision, fast actuation and intelligence to play the game with a winning strategy. TOPIO is a humanoid robot that can play one-on-one ping pong with humans. It was first introduced in IREX – world's largest robot trade fair – held in Tokyo, Japan on November 28, 2007.^[5] While TOPIO 1.0 runs on water power, measures 1,8m, weighs 500 kg, has 6 legs and cannot move, TOPIO 2.0 is 2,1m but only weighs 60 kg, has 2 legs and can move. As it is considered a much more advanced version compared to the former one, TOPIO 2.0 has 28 DoFs and runs on electricity. Its ability to move, dance and play ping pong is based on modules such as high-speed image sensor, artificial neural network, movement controller, etc. The newest TOPIO 3.0 is as tall as 1,88m and weighs 120 kg with 32 DoFs.

The biggest challenge in designing TOPIO 3.0 is to fulfil 2 requirements: to be able to move & to play ping pong. In robotics engineering, it is not an easy task to combine these two factors. Nevertheless, TOPIO has undergone a thorough research and development procedure so that it could move fluently in 2 foot.^[6]

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  TOPIO 1.0

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  TOPIO 2.0

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  TOPIO 3.0

SketRobo is a humanoid robot that can draw over 200 pre-loaded images, using a hand-held pen and a sheet of paper clipped to a table in front of it. At the moment, SketRobo’s drawing ability is still limited; however, in the future, TOSY Robotics will equip the robot with facial recognition system and motion detection so as the robot can sketch the faces of real people.^[7] TOSY Robotics also aims to use SketRobo to help children learn how to draw.

• TOPIO Dio

TOPIO Dio is a humanoid robot that measures 125 cm tall and weighs 45 kg, where it features 28 DoFs, a trio of wheels, a built-in camera, a sensor that helps it avoid obstacles and a Wi-Fi control capability.^[8] TOSY Robotics says that the robot is mainly aimed at the “hospitality and restaurant” industries.^[9]

Smart toys[]

DiscoRobo is a "dancing" robot.^[10]

Inspired by traditional toys of Vietnamese children, TOOP is a modern spinning top that runs on 3A battery with non-stop motorized spinning. With a controlling stick, players can create their own game strategy and control the tops to compete with others on the arena battle set. On 2011 July 7, TOOP was awarded by Guinness World Records as “The world’s longest-running mechanical spinning top”. With its record of spinning for 24 hours 35 minutes and 15 seconds.^[11]

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  Certification from Guinness World Records

AFO is a boomerang with an LED light.^[12] Players are encouraged to use their creativity to come up with different ways of playing AFO both indoor and outdoor.^[13]

Industrial robots[]

In 2010 Automatica Exhibition held in Munich, TOSY Robotics introduced 3 industrial robots: Arm Robot, Parallel Robot & Scara Robot. Arm Robot is an interactive automatic device that can solder, paint, assemble, move boxes or pallets, etc. Scara Robot and Parallel Robot are able to execute production on fast-moving conveyors. These 3 robots have an accurate measurement of 0,1mm, work range of 0,6-2m and workload of 1–30 kg. To minimize production cost, TOSY Robotics has self-created the entire components of its industrial robots like engine, reducer, electrical network, automatic control,…^[14]

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  Arm robot

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  Parallel robot

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  Scara robot

Other products[]

BallRobo and TyreRobo are robots that can freely move in all directions and are enabled by remote control. These 2 robots have been registered for patent for their special mechanical engineering that helps them move on different topographic: sand, snow, water, etc.

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  BallRobo

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  TyreRobo

International Awards[]

• Best Toy Award – AFO, Good Housekeeping, 2011^[15]
• Top Tech Toy – AFO, The Street, 2011^[16]
• Guinness World Records – TOOP, 2011^[11]
• Great Toy of the Year – TOOP, Good Housekeeping, 2012^[17]
• Best of Toy Fair – DiscoRobo, Popular Science, 2012^[18]
• Space Age Award for Best High-tech Toy – SketRobo, 2012^[19]
• Top Product at New York Toy Fair – SketRobo, Mashable, 2012^[20]
• Best of CES – mRobo, The Washington Post, 2012^[21]
• Best of CES – mRobo, The Huffington Post, 2012^[22]

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