ASIMO is awesome-o
 

We saw ASIMO at Innoventions last Sunday. Awesome. I've seen tons of video and such, but seeing it in person was truly amazing.

I'm sure there are some people who see it and go eh, no big deal, but if you dig robotics at all, you understand just how incredible a breakthrough it is. Walking isn't easy, nevermind turning or following or climbing stairs, or moving so quickly and fluidly, and doing all of it in something like 120 pounds is unbelievable.

It's kind of a bummer that the whole show is preprogrammed. They talk about his intelligence capabilities but don't give a live demonstration. Too much room for error, I guess. I just tuned out the stupid storyline and watched it move.

Here are some movies from Honda's site. At Innoventions you get the candy coated show, unlike these films. I wish we could have seen him run in person, but he does lots of other things.


This is worth taking the time to get into Innoventions and secure a seat. Make sure to ask the CM outside of ASIMO is in today - The first show was at 11am, and I've hard the last show is at 7pm.

What's this? I thought Cartman was AWESOME-O.

A fake beard, a stove-pipe hat, and walla! Mini-Abe!

Merry, we couldn't stop imitating Cartman all day...:D Hence the title of the thread, of course.

He's 4 feet tall and really creepy. Awesome and creepy.

I was a little dissappointed that the whole show was programmed, but his movements were really cool.

The first time I heard about it was on the MC board. So I checked out some pics there and its just as TheatreT said CREEPY but sorta cool too. It's just tough for me to justify any reason to go into Innovations. It's a little better now but uggg STILL bad.

I know what you mean, but I'm pretty adept at ignoring everything else and aiming for my objective. Got used to that even before the Segways showed up.

If you like tech at all, it's worth it. :)

I know that ASIMO was built small because one of its purposes is to be a helper 'bot... but how will it take over the world?

By doing a lot of shin-kicking.

What really surprised me is his light weight. I think 115lbs was the figure. Kind of comforting, really. I mean, if and when his programming gets corrupted by a virus or some accident involving a blender and he starts to take over the world...at least I could kick his ass.

It would be fun to push him over and see what he tries to do in order to get up again.