Toyota's humanoid to explore moon by 2020?

 Just read Moriyama-san' blog which led me to another freelance journalist Otsuka-san's blog.

 He has put up copies of slides which were presented by an executive at Toyota during some kind of task force meeting that discusses Japan's direction/strategy in space exploration.

 The title of the presentation is "Realization of Moon Exploration Using Advanced Robots by 2020." There is an image (photo?) of what that robot might look like.

 
  The specification on the right says, weight 55kg (12kg 3kWh battery included), power consumption 0.4kW, 7 hours of operation. The yellow section lists

-joints are protected from regolith

-small capacity solar battery onboard

-internal status shows on screen on chest

-arms exchangeable for different tasks

-able to jump with springs in legs

-keeps warm during night covered in metal cloak

 Multiple robots will be sent to the moon to explore, do research and build stuff.

  There's a slide explaining how to get enough energy to feed the robots, but otherwise there are no details whatsoever on whether Toyota is actually trying to develop such robots. Most of you are familiar with these robots made by Toyota. I guess we have to wait until Otsuka-san or someone writes up a story about the meeting.

 There's one slide that's kinda funny which is titled "Merging Japanese Traditional Culture with Advanced Technology." Two robots are making a Japanese rock garden on the moon. Another is doing calligraphy (the character is "moon") looking at the earth. There's dango and tea, symbols for moon-viewing  in Japan.

 You can look at more slides here.