Photos: Toyota's robots work mobile magic

The violin-playing robot has a total of 17 joints in both of its hands and arms and, Toyota claims, can attain 'humanlike dexterity'. (A couple years back, the company introduced a trumpet-playing robot.) The 56-kilogram machine performed Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, but the company really is grooming it for domestic duties, nursing and medical care.

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