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...plastic body. Reacting to a person entering the lobby of Honda Motor Co.'s Wako Research Center just outside of Tokyo, the robot advances toward the reception desk, stops, bows and says in a prepubescent boy's voice: "Welcome to the Honda R. and D. center. My name is ASIMO." When the visitor offers to shake hands, ASIMO extends a mechanical hand in response. Then, on cue from a Honda employee, the robot waves and emits a chirpy...
...this bucket of bolts smart enough to get me a beer? To Masato Hirose, senior chief engineer at the Honda lab, this is not a facetious question. Since 1986, Honda researchers have been trying to build a robot that could balance and walk naturally like a human. With ASIMO (short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), mission accomplished. Now they are moving on to the next epochal challenge: creating a generation of humanoid machines that boast the kind of butlering skills of classic science fiction robots. "Imagine a machine that's as versatile as a human but that works...
...ASIMO was designed with that in mind, says Hirose. The robot is light (52 kilos), lest it stumble and pin a user to the floor, triggering a product-liability lawsuit. Yet it's tall enough to reach light switches and doorknobs or to clear the table. Its mini-cam "eyes" are level with those of a sitting adult for easy communication, and its humanlike form is meant to break down our inhibitions toward sharing a home with a talking toaster...
LOOK WHO'S WALKING After 15 years of research, Honda reports that it has created a robot that walks on two legs in a lifelike, humanoid fashion. Its name is ASIMO, and it can walk forward and backward and even up and down stairs. There are no plans to market ASIMO just yet, but Honda engineers hope that one day ASIMO will help humans with household tasks. Don't worry: at only 4 ft. tall and 95 lbs., ASIMO is less Terminator and more Robby the Robot...
Some months ago he brought back a girl guerrilla named Asimo Kostopoulou, who fought under the nom de guerre of Toga...