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).

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TOPIO 3.0 at IREX 2009
TOPIO 2.0 at Nuremberg International Toy Fair 2009
TOPIO 1.0 demonstrated at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition 2007