Toyota's Robina Officially Unveiled

There's been quite a frenzy lately about Toyota's venture into robotics. Well, the fanfare continued today when Toyota officially showed off it's receptionist robot, TPR-Robina. Waziwazi would love to make trips to Japan to bring you live coverage of such robot launches. But seeing as our current budget can only afford us a trip to the local Los Angeles supaa to buy some edamame and Pocky, we hope you don't mind if we just translate Impress Watch's coverage of the event:

• ROBina stands for "ROBot as INtelligent Assistant"
• Height: 1.2m (3.93'), Weight: 60kg (132lb)
• Max speed: 3.6km/hr (2.24mph)
• Robina has laser, ultrasonic, power (arm) sensors, a microphone for speech recognition, image recognition and wireless LAN
• 27 degrees of freedom
• Videos: Robina making an entrance and signing an autograph