European Launch of the ALL-New ASIMO & UNI-CUB β

Video commentary includes Large Project Leader ASIMO Development, Satoshi Shigemi - Senior Chief Engineer Honda R&D and Vikki Hood - Corporate Communications Manager, Honda Motor Europe.

[asimo]

*ASIMO In Europe*
_Watch the European Launch of the ALL-New ASIMO & UNI-CUB β_

Video commentary includes Large Project Leader ASIMO Development, *Satoshi Shigemi* - _Senior Chief Engineer Honda R&D_ and *Vikki Hood* - _Corporate Communications Manager, Honda Motor Europe._

From Vikki Hood: _"Honda's commitment to the development of Humanoid Robots stretches back almost 3 decades. Honda's vision is to create a robot that can react to people, enhancing their daily lives."_

[BigMTBrain]

I imagine UNI-CUBs and derivatives by other manufacturers will be ubiquitous in about three to four years. Eventually, they'll come down to the price of nice chairs and will be constructed of cheaper yet stronger materials. They will be commonplace in American offices and malls. That's not a bad thing, but it will allow us Americans to grow even fatter.

[Scoring]

This robot is cool but it seems like it's more programmed than it is a "thinking", dynamic robot that can properly respond to a variety of situations. If it's going to work in the real world, they're going to have to do a lot more programming for a lot more situations.

[danfrederiksen]

All new? really? what a load of bs.
It's still the same entirely useless robot. They think they can engineer the capabilities but it will never work without it learning on its own.