Create
Comment
Share this
Officially, the name is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility". Honda's official statements claim that the robot's name is not a reference to science fiction writer and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov.
Welcome to CWAnswers
CWAnswers is your guide to the sprawling world wide web. The directory aims to provide a useful guide made by users. You can share your knowledge as well - simply sign up and edit your first entry. For questions just contact the team at support - at - cwanswers.com.
Weblinks for Asimo
Top 10 for Asimo
Things about Asimo you find nowhere else.
Select content modules
Officially, the name is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility". Honda's official statements claim that the robot's name is not a reference to science fiction writer and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov.
As of 2007, there are 46 ASIMO units in existence. Each one costs less than $1 million (¥106,710,325 or €638,186 or £504,720) to manufacture, and some units are available to be hired out for $166,000 (¥17,714,316 or €105,920 or £83,789) per year.
Experimental Models
- E0 unveiled in 1986
- E1 unveiled in 1987
- E2 unveiled in 1987
- E3 unveiled in 1987
- E4 unveiled in 1991
- E5 unveiled in 1991
- E6 unveiled in 1991
Humanoid Prototype Models
ASIMO
- ASIMO unveiled in 2000
- ASIMO for hire unveiled in 2001
- intelligent ASIMO unveiled in 2002
- next-gen ASIMO unveiled in 2004
- new ASIMO unveiled in 2005
Specifications
''sources: 1 2 3 4 5 Retrieved 18 February 2007.''
Asimo can be operated from a workstation and also by a remote controller. Honda has also created a 3D CPU (consisting of three stacked dice: a processor, a signal converter and some memory) to power super Asimo. ASIMO runs the Operating System VxWorks
Recognition technology
With 2000's ASIMO model Honda added many features that enable ASIMO to interact better with humans. These features fall under 5 categories:
1. Recognition of moving objects
