Published on December 11th,2007 at 5:04 AM
By >Daimaou - G.G-B

Asimo is back !

After Toyota’s impressive demonstration, Honda had to strike back, and invited “a chosen few” (which turned into a hundred people as usual) to a new press conference to unveil the latest version of their “Robot King”: Asimo.

No need to hide it any longer: the meeting was a letdown, because the only enhancements that were brought to Asimo were better objects detection (it would basically run into things before), and a longer lasting battery… hmm… I guess the people at Toyota must be laughing quite hard at the moment… Of course I took some photos and one video, there you go!








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Comments
 

  • velvet

    I couldn’t find the link for the video, where is it?

  • Thetrue

    So far, no video link.

    Btw, awesome robot too bad is damn way expensive.

  • Bruno
  • http://www.akihabaranews.com Daimaou

    We had some glitch on our video and a stupid foreign photographer decided to ruin every cameramen shot… Anyway we will upload the video within today

    Cheers

  • http://s25.biz/worldinfo faizirizal

    is the robot can charge by himself? if he feel weak he go to the charger and DIY .. lol

  • Thetrue

    “is the robot can charge by himself? if he feel weak he go to the charger and DIY .. lol”

    Yeah, looking to a photo (above) I would assume yes. To him do that isn’t hard at all (low battery sensor), what is hard is how he can get until there by walking (avoiding objects, etc). I wonder when those robots will start to get cheap enough to starting to buy for masses.

  • http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/post_comment.php?type=news&id=19923 JOSH

    HOW CAN I GET A ASIMO FOR MYSELF

    HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST

 

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