TOPIO

TOPIO ("TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot") is a bipedal humanoid robot designed to play table tennis against a human being.[1] It has been developed since 2005 by TOSY, a robotics firm in Vietnam. It was publicly demonstrated at the Tokyo International Robot Exhibition (IREX) on November 28, 2007.[2] TOPIO 3.0 (the latest version of TOPIO) stands approximately 1.88 m (6' 2") tall and weighs 120 kg (264 lb).[3]

TOPIO 3.0 at IREX 2009
  1. ^ "A Ping-Pong-Playing Terminator". Popular Science. 2010-02-17. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  2. ^ "TOSY TOPIO - Table Tennis Playing Robot". DigInfo News. 5 December 2007. Archived from the original on 21 May 2009. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
  3. ^ "TOPIO 3.0 at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition 2009". Reuters. Retrieved 2009-11-27.[dead link‍]