Vietnamese brand robot

At the age of 29, Ho Vinh Hoang, general manager of Tosy Robotics Joint Stock Company (Lang Street, Hanoi), owns Topio - a robot who knows how to play Tosy table tennis and flying saucers - a kind of high-tech toy exported. export over 10 countries.

Ho Vinh Hoang on Topio 3.0 robot can play table tennis.(Photo: Phi Long)

Hoang is full of dreams when talking about his upcoming plans: ' Until now, many countries still used to think of a Vietnam exporting rice, coffee, tea, rubber, a country specializing in processing, making rent and export raw resources only. I want one day they will think of Vietnam as a reliable address for cheap robot production . '

Flying saucer from dream

Ho Vinh Hoang has a passionate and discoverable childhood. When I was still in school, instead of having my parents buy toys, the pupil of Hà Hà school made himself a toy. At the age of 5, Hoang's first ' creative process ' was born: the canoe runs under water with batteries. The last year of student life at the University of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (Hanoi National University), a ball was moved by a remote controller built by Hoang after three months of searching.

The flying saucer toy called Tosy gradually grew in the mind of the junior high school student. In 2002, when he was a second-year student at Hanoi University of Technology, Hoang was determined to fulfill his dream and invite some friends to start a company. In 2003, Hoang and the school's robocon team won the first prize in the Robocon competition as captain.

Winning not only helps Hoang become more confident, but also has more companions. Just one year later, the first product of Tosy was born, it was a toy flying saucer - the forerunner of Tosy flying saucer products for children being exported by Hoang's company to Japan, Germany, Poland .

Exporting toys to Japan is really a struggle, because it must meet hundreds of strict technical and safety standards. Hoang said that the Japanese testing center has a very dreadful test: put the product in a cold environment with a negative temperature of 10 ⁰ C and heat it above 40 ⁰ C, then shoot the Tosy flying saucer with a strong swirl, then use sharp objects crash into wings, pack into cartons and release at 50m high. Not reassuring, Japanese experts also removed toys, pinned two batteries to see if they were heating up and sent experts to Vietnam to supervise the production process before signing a distribution contract in Japan.

Vietnamese brand robot

The long journey of research to produce Tosy flying saucer is a stepping stone for Ho Vinh Hoang to invent an elaborate robot to be released in 2006. The first version of the robot called Topio can be polished to be held by Hoang. The world's largest robot in Tokyo (Japan) in 2007 surprised many foreigners by knowing its ' father ' is a young Vietnamese, doing all the steps from producing details, parts. soft to design.

Hoang recalls: ' When we were working on this project, we were searching for materials on the internet and were known to have only a table polisher, but there was no human-like robot. So I'm determined to create a robot that can do very difficult moves like table tennis . ' At Tosy's research and development center located in Lang Street (Hanoi), Hoang and his engineers diligently tested the robot models.

After the first Tosy robot was successfully launched, subsequent robot versions are gradually forming before mass production. They are high-level robots, automatically pick up items on packaging lines, automatically paint, weld, cut, move objects in dangerous and toxic environments of industrial plants. Another type of robot that serves in restaurants, restaurants, or help people has gradually shaped.

Another direction of Tosy focused on developing by the Hoang company is robots that serve high precision industries and also had the first products to be tested for production before being mass produced.