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Taro Toporific wrote:... Despite the technological advances, Honda has not made much progress in determining just what the robot might be used for...
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A knob at the NYT wrote:NYTimes.com 7PM 15 Dec (Technology)
Despite the technological advances, Honda has not made much progress in determining just what the robot might be used for....
emphasis mineTimeAsia wrote:When the visitor offers to shake hands, ASIMO extends a mechanical hand in response. Then, on cue from a Honda employee, the robot waves and emits a chirpy "bye-bye."
Cute. But is this bucket of bolts smart enough to get me a beer? To Masato Hirose, senior chief engineer at the Honda lab, this is not a facetious question. Since 1986, Honda researchers have been trying to build a robot that could balance and walk naturally like a human. With ASIMO (short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), mission accomplished. Now they are moving on to the next epochal challenge: creating a generation of humanoid machines that boast the kind of butlering skills of classic science fiction robots.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020701-265481,00.html
Socratesabroad wrote:A knob at the NYT wrote:NYTimes.com 7PM 15 Dec (Technology)
Despite the technological advances, Honda has not made much progress in determining just what the robot might be used for....emphasis mineTimeAsia wrote:When the visitor offers to shake hands, ASIMO extends a mechanical hand in response. Then, on cue from a Honda employee, the robot waves and emits a chirpy "bye-bye."
Cute. But is this bucket of bolts smart enough to get me a beer? To Masato Hirose, senior chief engineer at the Honda lab, this is not a facetious question. Since 1986, Honda researchers have been trying to build a robot that could balance and walk naturally like a human. With ASIMO (short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), mission accomplished. Now they are moving on to the next epochal challenge: creating a generation of humanoid machines that boast the kind of butlering skills of classic science fiction robots.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020701-265481,00.html
The NYT article's quite snide about Asimo and his ilk, but they represent a tentative solution to major problems of balance, walking, maintaining a center a gravity, etc. I think another article said it best - robots today are at the same stage as PCs in the 70s. Dismissed as impractical and without use, they merely need a killer app or viable platform to really take off technologically...
What, does no one remember this:
Have you seen the video of it running? Asimo looks like a little, old Japanese man running..Perfecting the running motion was a technological challenge, the robot's developers said, because the rapid arm movements tended to throw the robot off balance...
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