Toyota Motor Corp. presented on Thursday its latest creations belonging to robotics field meant to develop futuristic machines capable to help people in domestic duties, nursing, healthcare and short-distance personal transport by 2010.

Photographers were stunned when seeing the five-feet, two-legged, white robot performing a full rendition of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance.” The presentation was not totally perfect but was described by some as “stilted.” The perfect bow from the end of the performance recalled for human grace and made dozens of digital cameras to click endlessly in surprising the robots’ movements.

The new robot comes three years after Toyota unveiled a trumpet-playing robot, which was its first humanoid machine in its try to catch up with its competitors Honda Motor Co., Sony Corp, Fujitsu Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd.

Honda became famous for creating Asimo, considered one of the world’s most advanced humanoids, being able to walk, jog, wave, avoid obstacles and carry on simple conversations.

Toyota also presented a two-wheeled, single seat “mobility robot” that could be used for transporting elderly or disabled people over uneven ground and around obstacles without disturbing the person sitting on the chair because of the wheels’ ability to adjust at the changes.

The robot comes just at the perfect time, as Japan is the country where 40 percent of the population is expected to be over 65 by 2055.

Another stunning creation was presented by Toyota. Robina, on its name, is a wheeled robot with a human torso which has been working as a guide at Toyota’s showroom in Tokyo for the past year, being able to answer visitors’ questions as well as signing autographs.

Robotics will become the most important business for Toyota by 2020. The company, known for using industrial robots in its car plants, plans to unveil medical robots next year as well as more advanced “partner robots” for helping people in day by day activities.

"We want to create robots that are useful for people in everyday life. Over the next two to three years, we will put the robots to the test through trial applications and see what kind of business possibilities they present," Toyota president and CEO Katsuaki Watanabe told reporters at the Toyota showroom in Tokyo, according to the Associated Press.

The company also said that it would work with universities and its group companies to speed up robotics development in its purpose to release more advanced robots, which can help people in factories, hospitals, homes and around towns soon after 2010.