P3 and ASIMO - The Honda Humanoid Robots

The company is a leader in the field of domestic and military robot. It relies on its model vacuum to invest European homes. robot is not one of these start-ups that surfing the past few years alone on the new wave of robots. As explained in the preamble to Expansion in an interview with the CEO and co-founder Colin Angle, robot has become in 18 years the first global robotics company with 450 employees and an annual turnover of nearly 250 million dollars. ” His weapon of conquest, or rather its weapons? On the one hand, robots developed for military purposes, including for demeaning operations of the U.S. military in Iraq. On the other hand, domestic models capable of performing the tasks of daily less favorable. Roomba, its best-selling product, aspires dust in full autonomy, also using an algorithm originally developed for robots mine detectors. Read more »

Last October, Sony accused of hacking those programs changed its Aibo robot dog. Today, the Japanese giant announced it will enter the public domain software who run the head of its creature. The Japanese group has made a big decision about his famous cyber pet, Aibo: June 3 next year, it will publish on its website Aibo.com details of the software Open-R, which allows you to program the robot’s behavior. Read more »

Asimo creates only a speed of three kilometers per hour .
Japan’s third largest car manufacturer now presented an improved version of its humanoid robot. Honda According to the first truly Asimo walking robot. However, the steps are still small, so that Asimo trippelt something and do not have a speed of three kilometers per hour hinauskommt. The real challenge in the development of a walking robot, according to Honda engineers is to ensure that the 1.30 Meter and 54 kilograms heavy Humanoid also the abandonment of ground holds equal weight. Because step over the short term, both legs in the air. The electronics giant Sony had a year ago also presented a robot, for a brief moment with both feet leave the ground. The movements of the so-called Qrio resembled more of a hop, which linked to the fact that the robot after Abfedern the necessary power to go forward kick of the leg is missing. Read more »

The humanoid robot Asimo from Honda now works independently and operates independently with its environment.
The new technology developed by Honda puts the robot now in the situation in an environment with other people and Asimo robots to interact. Asimo has learned and is now in a position to be harmonious. The robot can now dodge oncoming people. It covers the persons eyes with his camera, calculates its direction of motion and speed, calculated their expected movements and then selects independently the fairest way to the person not to hinder. Is not enough space occurs Asimo back and lets the people the priority. Even in the everyday work of a human being, the small robots now perform tasks such as wearing a trays and pushing a wagon. Another feature is that when Asimo below a certain battery now stand independently its battery charges. The comprehensive system allows that several Asimo robot work together for editing. Read more »

Asimo robot had yesterday at the fair Swiss Oerlikon-Moto in his first appearance in Switzerland. Quite Gentleman, he brought on Valentine’s Day with a rose. 20minuten.ch was deceiver can go as a man dancing on one leg and even climb stairs: What every small child sometime masters, means the robot research milestone Asimo is the most advanced human-robot. Behind his capabilities are over 20 years of research in the Honda laboratories. Read more »