Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Run, Boy, Run!

This one goes out to David and Curt, who believe I should be posting more =-)

Check out the new version of Honda's ASIMO (pronounced Awesome-O). He runs, with his feet actually leaving the ground for 0.08 seconds on each stride. A great technical achievement to be sure, but watching this little guy go I can't help but feel that the state of the art in modern robotics surely would be a disappointment to all the little kids in the '50s who envisioned aircars in every skygarage and robots in every home by now.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

WOW! His feet do leave the ground!Thanks! You made my day!
LDN

Unknown said...

That was cool - and very creepy. it looks like he's sneaking around. Maybe they are developing a spying robot!