Toyota Research Institute Punyo
Punyo is a TRI research platform that covers a humanoid upper body in soft, sensor-filled bubbles to study whole-body manipulation using contact with the arms and chest.
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How the score is built
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What people buy instead.
- Status
- Research
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- December 2023
- Form
- upper-body
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric arms with air-filled soft covers
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Soft whole-body manipulation research platform at Toyota Research Institute (US), shown December 2023.
What stands out
- Soft whole-body contact manipulation
Autonomy, observed
Lifting large objects with arms and chest in TRI videos.
Teleoperation used to gather demonstrations.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: soft bubble grippers
- Sensors: tactile sensing in soft bubbles on arms and chest
- AI stack: diffusion policy and RL for whole-body contact
Price and volume
Research platform.
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Sources
- 01TRI Punyo project pageToyota Research Institute
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