Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to go see a presentation on ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative MObility), the walking robot that Honda had developed. Overall, it was a pretty cool show as they showed off ASIMO's ability to walk and turn pretty seemlessly without missing a beat or having to stop and turn. The presentor also showed off several videos about ASIMO's past and the bumps in the road that the Honda engineers had to face while developing it. It was sort of funny watching the earlier models that didn't have a head or torso walking on a tread mill, and then all of a sudden just lean too much one way and begin to fall. Luckily, all the earlier models had various harnesses attached to them, so no damage was done. The kids in the audience seem to be the most impressed by ASIMO since ASIMO, if you ignore his capabilies, pretty much looks like a really large toy. Anyways, I have some pics and a video of the event so that you guys can see what happened. Pardon the low quality of the video, as I'm currently stuck with a puny 32 meg Compactflash card at the moment >.<
ASIMO waiting for his next command.
ASIMO standing on one foot, but I was too slow to get the picture :P
ASIMO waving to the camera!
ASIMO's Brochure (Warning...940k pic)
ASIMO in action! (10 megs)
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