Meet the new ASIMO

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The new one is here with the world’s first autonomous behavior control technology. It can recognize faces, voices, and objects. It’s pretty agile and is capable of performing tasks such as twisting the cap off a bottle and pouring a drink:

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http://world.honda.com/news/2011/c111108All-new-ASIMO/index.html

We are one step closer to having a robot in the home. Would you have one, I know I would?
 
:eek:

Ofc it's only doing things that any human being would find trivial but it's impressive replication of human activities by a mechanism.
 
Hotwired said:
:eek:

Ofc it's only doing things that any human being would find trivial but it's impressive replication of human activities by a mechanism.
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Indeed. There's so much we do everyday subconsciously that we take for granted that takes huge amounts of processing power and code to achieve just a fraction of for Asimo. The grip on the cup as he was pouring the liquid for example. We don't really think about adjusting the pressure of our grip and all the stuff that goes along with the pouring process, as the contents of the cup / vessel get more or less. But all the tech that's involved in that simple little action boggles my mind. And the benefit of that tech that can then go into prosthetic advancement so that future prosthetics become smarter and give users back sensations that they lost with limbs... amazing to think about the possibilities.
 
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Saw this on the news this morning, looks like all the care assistant jobs are going to get replaced, closely followed by the bin men and so on
 
Mp4 said:
Impressive!

I found the hopping and jumping more impressive than the cup
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I'd like to see him tackle walking on something a little more challenging than an office floor. Or stairs.

The cup example would be interesting to if he could determine whether or not the liquid in the vessel would fit into the cup. So someone could randomly hand him a flask and a cup and while pouring the contents of the flask into the cup use his camera eyes and "brain" to judge the levels and whether it will fit. Or calculate through observation the capacity of the cup, the capacity of the flask and whether it will fit that way. Or by using sensors calculate the flasks weight and then deduce whether it will fit. That kind of AI and cognitive programming and stuff fascinates the hell out of me. It's something we do every day when we're making a cup of tea or coffee and we never think about it at all.
 
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