Robot is the perfect ‘pick me up’

Toyota’s new robot that glides around like R2-D2 is devoted to a single task — picking things up.

HSR, short for “human support robot”, comes with a single mechanical arm that can grasp objects of various shapes and sizes and also pick up smaller items with a tiny suction cup.

It does not have other tricks in its repertoire, except for a computer panel on its head for surfing the internet.