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Toyota Robot Video - playing violin and trumpet
11 December 07 04:05 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Yesterday I posted here on Toyota's violin playing robot.  Cool stuff.  Here's a video that shows a nice close up view on the fingers on the strings.  Sorry the video quality itself is poor -- obviously it's not Silverlight HD .    Read More...

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Share the Robot Love! Toyota's violin playing bot and the GM FIRST Robot Challenge
11 December 07 02:46 AM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   

I'm a fan of robots. As such, two things caught my attention recently -- one far from home and one very near. First, on Thursday Toyota unveiled a white, 5 foot tall, violin playing robot that bowed with its right arm and pressed strings with its left. Read More...

Filed under: Automotive, Toyota, education, robots, GM

Toyota's Car OS vs. Ford's Sync (Microsoft Windows Automotive), Part 2
04 April 07 10:19 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Welcome back for Part 2! I didn't expect this to be a series when I wrote the original post , but two things happened recently that might (I hope :-) ) make a second post interesting. First, Reuters picked up a story from the Nikkei business daily headlined Read More...

Filed under: embedded, Automotive, in-vehicle software, Toyota, Toyota OS, ford, Car OS, SYNC

Toyota's Car OS vs. Ford's Sync (Microsoft Windows Automotive)
06 February 07 10:29 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Ok -- let me come clean right up front: the headline here is slightly misleading because Toyota's Car OS and Ford's Sync are not really directly comparable. For one thing, Toyota's Car OS does not appear to exist yet -- though it reportedly is under development. Read More...

Filed under: Convergence, Automotive, innovation, in-vehicle software, manufacturing, Toyota, Toyota OS, Car OS, SYNC

Lean Everywhere
17 January 07 11:29 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Lean manufacturing has been around for a long time. Many of the principles of lean were identified in Henry Ford's work before the US Great Depression of the 1930s, and significantly extrended by Kiichiro Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno during the middle of the Read More...

Filed under: innovation, adaptive, healthcare, lean manufacturing, manufacturing, change, Toyota, secret sauce, lean, Lean Everywhere