2011 Honda Unveils All new ASIMO - Performing Tasks Using Arms and Multi Fingered Hands

Honda Unveils All-new ASIMO with Significant Advancements;
"Honda Robotics" established as new collective name to represent
Honda robotics research and all product applications

TOKYO, Japan, November 8, 2011 -- Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today unveiled an all-new ASIMO humanoid robot newly equipped with the world's first* autonomous behavior control technology. With a further advance in autonomy, the all-new ASIMO can now continue moving without being controlled by an operator. Moreover, with significantly improved intelligence and the physical ability to adapt to situations, ASIMO took another step closer to practical use in an office or a public space where many people come and go.

Since the establishment of the company, Honda has continued to take on new challenges in the effort to create new products and advance technologies with the spirit of utilizing technology to help people. In the area of humanoid robot research, Honda has been developing and advancing the ASIMO humanoid robot to realize a dream to be useful for people and to help enrich people's daily lives.

Honda has a newly established collective name, Honda Robotics, to represent all of its robotics technologies and product applications created through its research and development of humanoid robots. While continuing the research and development of humanoid robots, Honda will also focus on applying robotics technologies to mass-produced products and putting product applications into practical use.

Based on this concept of Honda Robotics, Honda also introduced an experimental model of a task-performing robot arm that was developed while applying multi-joint simultaneous orbit control and posture control technologies amassed through the research and development of ASIMO. This robot arm can be remotely controlled to perform tasks in unstable places which are difficult for people to access.

* Honda internal research (as of November 8, 2011)

All-new ASIMO
The all-new ASIMO is now advanced from an "automatic machine" to an "autonomous machine" with the decision-making capability to determine its behavior in concert with its surroundings such as movements of people. At the beginning of the development process, the following three factors were identified as necessary for a robot to perform as an autonomous machine, and the technologies required to realize these capabilities were developed; 1) high-level postural balancing capability which enables the robot to maintain its posture by putting out its leg in an instant, 2) external recognition capability which enables the robot to integrate information, such as movements of people around it, from multiple sensors and estimate the changes that are taking place, and 3) the capability to generate autonomous behavior which enables the robot to make predictions from gathered information and autonomously determine the next behavior without being controlled by an operator. With these capabilities, the all-new ASIMO takes another step closer to practical use in an environment where it can work in harmony with people.

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[NewSimpleadams]

But will it blend?

[gustavokblo]

I was waiting for him to drink it...

[mediiskit]

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[janimegirl22]

asimo makes all the other robots look like scrapmetal

[HauptmannAmerica]

One day it will carry an assault rifle.

[johnson1095]

i wish it was faster

[Thrasher44]

he shoulda kicked her ass, bitch thinks she can just steal mr. robot's lemonade!

[cwhite591]

Wow, this just makes you realize how far science has come, and especially what possibilities the future holds.

[Dasistnumberwang]

Its funny cause for all his robotic advancements, he still can't reach whats on the top shelf haha

[TheAliyev]

awesome