Having Failed with Cars, Toyota Takes Up Robotics…

What do you do when you begin to suck at what you were doing great for decades? Give it up, of course! And start working on something far, far more dangerous (if you fail at this too, that is).

Amidst a storm of recalls due to braking systems failure on its US-built vehicles, Japanese carmaker Toyota announced today it is working on a "partner robot" to be used as a personal assistant for humans. And not one, but four different types of robots…

For one, we have the walking rob… (read more)