ASIMO

ASIMO
ASIMO at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2011
Year of creation2000
Websiteasimo.honda.com
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ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) is a humanoid robot created by Honda in 2000. It is displayed in the Miraikan museum in Tokyo, Japan. On 8 July 2018, Honda posted the last update of ASIMO on their official page stating that it would be ceasing all development and production of ASIMO robots in order to focus on more practical applications using the technology developed through ASIMO's lifespan.[1][2] It made its last active appearance in March 2022, over 20 years after its first, as Honda announced that they are retiring the robot to concentrate on remote-controlled, avatar-style, robotic technology.[3][4]

There are four published models of the ASIMO. A few years after the release in 2002 there were 20 units of the first ASIMO model produced.[5] As of February 2009, there were over 100 ASIMO units in existence.[6]

  1. ^ "ASIMO by Honda | The World's Most Advanced Humanoid Robot". asimo.honda.com. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  2. ^ Kupperberg, Paul (2007). Careers in robotics. New York: Rosen Pub. p. 8. ISBN 978-1404209565.
  3. ^ "Honda's Asimo robot retires after 20-year career wowing public".
  4. ^ "Honda's humanoid robot Asimo bids farewell | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News". NHK WORLD. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Say Hello To Asimo". Forbes. 2002.
  6. ^ Kevin Warwick (25 February 2009). "Today it's a cute friend. Tomorrow it could be the dominant life form". Times of London.[dead link]