On August 4, 2013, Toyota’s jointly developed robot astronaut, Kirobo, will blast off from Tanegashima Space Centre, heading for the International Space Station. Kirobo will take part in the first-ever human-robot conversation experiment in space when Commander Koichi Wakata arrives on Expedition 38 in November-December. Fuminori Kataoka, Project General Manager Product Planning Group, Toyota Motor Corporation talks about Toyota’s role in the Kibo Robot Project, use of the company’s latest voice-recognitio
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