By David Ponce
Honda’s ASIMO has come a long way in its 20 year history, looking more and more human along the way. There’s really no reason (other than our anthropomorphilia (I like big words)) to equate a robot’s ever more human appearance with its apparent evolution. ASIMO might just as well have evolved into the form of a T-Rex, an arguably fitter and stronger animal specimen than us.
But I digress.
The point here, is that Honda’s put up a neat page of the robot’s history. A fun fact? The first model in 1986, called the “E0, Experimental Model D”, took five seconds between each of its steps, and all it did was walk in a straight line.
[ASIMO History] VIA [Gizmologia]
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History of Humanoids, Part I…
Honda put together an extensive history of its humanoid machines on its website, culminating in Asimo, which debuted in 2000. We’re digging the group shot above, showing how the robot started off in 1986 as just a primitive pair of……
What year do year do you think well be able to buy a robot like asimo?
subcriped the year in 3000 above workline on it
i am 12 years old, from england and i went to a youths engineering show and i got to see asimo. but there is only one seriouse question i want to ask… can asimo catch if you threw a ball at him?
2050
2050
2050
No, he can’t… well… not yet.