Whenever the day's got you down, there's nothing like watching Honda's Asimo robot take a face plant to turn your frown upside down. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, however, the Japanese automaker and future master of Japan's robot army, Honda, had a chance to redeem its robot on stage. This time, Asimo not only climbed up and down stairs, it also danced liked Justin Timberlake circa 2001, bent it like Beckham, and ran across the stage and around in a circle, each step lifting its entire body off the ground for .08 seconds. We salute you Asimo, our robot master! (Just practicing.)
Check out the video of Asimo's performance after the jump.
[Source: Gizmodo via Techeblog]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SLiKone @ Jan 12th 2007 3:01PM
Is it just me, or does that thing creep out anyone else?
RC car videos @ Jan 12th 2007 3:53PM
That was awesome, finely they got it right.
Ty @ Jan 12th 2007 3:55PM
Yes! Asimo-san!!!
Richard Warren @ Jan 12th 2007 3:56PM
Not bad for a kid in a plastic Halloween costume. Nearly looks like a real robot.
DK @ Jan 12th 2007 3:56PM
Yeah I was just thinking the same thing... Be afraid, be very afraid...
retsel @ Jan 12th 2007 4:02PM
i loved it when bender (futurama) could not do the robot...
i would love to fight one of those... i would kick it butt...
Darien @ Jan 12th 2007 4:57PM
Too bad when I was at one of the demos at CES Asimo walked up the steps then refused to come down...
dionysus @ Jan 12th 2007 6:08PM
Being an engineer myself, this is great engineering. I can imagine Honda cars will be controlled by robots, or the car is robot, and robots drive faster than F1 drivers (if F1 still uses human drivers)! This will prove a good automatic transmission is faster than any manual shift. Great engineering Honda.
Jason @ Jan 12th 2007 8:40PM
@ #8 dionysus - uh, automatic transmissions have torque converters. Those are crap no matter how you slice it. If you want to talk about SMG, DSG, etc etc those are all ENTIRELY different technologies than the automatic transmission.
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Honda fixed this faster than GM could pull off a seatbelt recall. Comic!
In2uition @ Jan 12th 2007 9:19PM
For some reason that robot is creepy. Sure I like I think its cool...but something is just creepy about it.....
JP @ Jan 12th 2007 11:11PM
For how many years now has Honda been trotting out the Asimo dog and pony show? Seriously, this is impressive, but where are we going with this?
spanner @ Jan 13th 2007 3:48AM
Well, that is quite amazing I must say. Honda has come along way with that robot and spent an absolute fortune on it to I bet! I can see robots such as Asimo being a regular feature in the family home performing daily duties such as cooking, cleaning or even minding the kids in as little as 20 years from now. What Honda needs to do is share some of its robotic secrets (not all of the of course) with other companies so we can push forward the development of these technologies much more rapidly.
I only hope I'm still around to see that!
W @ Jan 13th 2007 3:33PM
Asimo; be at my office on Monday, I'll give you the keys to the door. No one will notice the difference. If you need me I'll be at the golf course.
Riker @ Jan 13th 2007 5:27PM
Asimo's still got nothing on QRIO.
Jon @ Jan 14th 2007 10:55AM
This is the future of manufacturing - how many cost-savings will there be when an army of robots do all the human manufaturing tasks - probably better than any human can? Say goodbye to many, many jobs in the future.
Freaked @ Jan 14th 2007 2:40PM
Ok - I'm creeped out.
J @ Jan 15th 2007 8:42PM
can't wait to see a robot, doing the robot. oh snap!
Lisa @ May 15th 2008 1:24PM
Robots performing human tasks is a old story, but tomorrow those automats enter aereas only sience fiction movies had entered before.
Who wants t go to a dentist, who has bad eyside, wasighting all night with his wife and has not sleptvery well lately, when thee is a automat thathas none of those issues and anyway wil do a better job.
This outlok is by my opinion a good positive outlook, we are going to live in a clean paradize. As our society emerges into a automatic society we need to embrace families without children. We do not need to bread retrement payees no more. Children will be taken for what they are, beautyfull huma beeings, and to have one is a gift of god, a pleasureand enjoyment, a luxury. Like a nice car or a big house or a dog. Small families need incentives for their sacrifice of not havingthe pleasure to have children, and big failies eed to be punished to overpopulate our beautyfull earth.