Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 9:01am
Honda's backpack-wearing Asimo robot is lovable and smart (except for when it falls down a flight of stairs). And with smarter sensors, it's now more human-like than ever!
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Friday, January 22, 2010 - 3:07pm
Robots have something of a bad rap, what with the The Matrix and Terminator making them out to be murdering, enslaving overlords. Not so, says Joe Berlinger, director of Metallica's Some Kind of Monster. His film premiered at the Sundance...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 12:21pm
Yamamoto Katsura, a graduate of Waseda University in Japan, has created an oversized costume of Honda's beloved Asimo that you can wear as a suit. Well, that is, if you don't mind shelling out $400 to build it, which is...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 4:21am
Coca-Cola's "Freestyle" suicide-making machine is so last week. Hitachi's come up with its own little gimmick that's even crazier: paying for a drink with your biometrics. We've seen Hitachi's finger vein authentication system before in cars. Now, machines installed in...
Friday, December 19, 2008 - 6:18am
Honda is celebrating its 50th anniversary of doing business in the U.S. and the automaker is doing it in a major way: with a 49-foot-tall replica of its famous Asimo robot. The bipedal giant will serve as the company's...
