Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) is a humanoid robot created by Honda in 2000. It is displayed in the Miraikan museum in Tokyo, Japan.On 8 July 2018, Honda posted the last update of ASIMO on their official page stating that it would be ceasing all development and production of ASIMO robots in order to focus on more practical applications using the technology developed through ASIMO ...
P3 model (left) compared to ASIMO. The P series is a series of prototype humanoid robots developed by Honda between 1993 and 2000. They were preceded by the Honda E series (whose development was not revealed to the public at the time) and followed by the ASIMO series, then the world's most advanced humanoid robots.
The E series was a collection of successive humanoid robots created by the Honda Motor Company between the years of 1986 and 1993. [1] These robots were only experimental, but later evolved into the Honda P series, with Honda eventually amassing the knowledge and experience necessary to create Honda's advanced humanoid robot: ASIMO.
Honda announced Thursday that it is working to develop, remote telepresence robots, electric VTOLs for short-hop commutes, and a fuel-cell driven power generation system for the lunar surface.
It's also a pun on the Japanese for foot (ashi) and the English word "move." The robot's name, according to Hatano, has absolutely nothing to do with Isaac Asimov, the Russian-born science fiction writer. These bots were made for walking: Honda's bold new bots are headed into your home by Tony McNicol. Japan Inc. 52 (Feb 2004): p10(2).
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The term comes from a Slavic root, robot-, with meanings associated with labor. The word "robot" was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti – Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, though it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.
Get some added enjoyment from naming your Roomba.