Everyone’s favorite soccer-playing, plastic-spaceman-wearing-a-backpack–style humanoid robot, ASIMO, is back and greater than ever! Honda’s bizarre robot adore child receives a rash of improvements this year, some of which are undoubtedly regarding for any tinfoil hat–wearing readers concerned about an eventual robot takeover of society. The Honda robot’s other new features, however, may just have a practical use in automobiles. That is a lot more than we can say for ASIMO’s potential to “leap” a whopping 1.97 inches.
ASIMO has been about for nearly 14 years, and that followed a lot more than a decade of study Honda put into walking and humanoid robots. Over time, ASIMO—which stands for “Advanced Step (in) Revolutionary MObility”—has gained the capacity to walk semi-naturally, carry items in his arms, turn, move rapidly (by “leaping,” an action throughout which each feet leave the ground), answer queries, recognize postures and gestures, recognize faces, shake hands, and collaborate with a second ASIMO to achieve a objective. This year, ASIMO takes the next step, so to speak, toward being a completely autonomous becoming, rather than a semi-human-controlled machine.
Honda has imbued ASIMO with what it calls “autonomous behavior handle technologies,” which is an ominous way of saying that the robot has a rudimentary choice-producing engine. ASIMO can now greater comprehend and react to his environment, as nicely as predict the motions of others and formulate a decision to, say, move out of someone’s way and return to his intended path afterward. Element of this ability comes from Honda’s installation of a kind of intelligence, so that ASIMO now “evaluates inputs from several sensors that are equivalent to the visual, auditory, and tactile senses of a human becoming.”
Whilst it may well sound kind of eerie, ASIMO’s new capabilities bode well for the improvement of far more sophisticated autonomous-driving aids. Critically, ASIMO’s ability to take in and react to his surroundings to steer clear of collisions is a rudimentary step toward a automobile carrying out the identical thing. Fully autonomous automobiles are nonetheless a lengthy way away, even so, so ASIMO’s other new talent, the capability to home in on a single speaker in a group (even if they’re all speaking at once) could preview a much more imminent true-planet automotive function. In-car voice controls could, in essence, borrow the facial- and auditory-recognition tech behind ASIMO’s social capabilities to respond to numerous voice inputs, therefore bringing into the digital age the age-old fight more than which radio station is chosen.
But that’s all in the future—for now, Honda’s friendly robot remains just that: A friendly companion . . . albeit 1 that can now also stroll on an uneven battlefield—er, uh, surface—perform surgical human experiments—we imply, “tasks with dexterity” making use of his fingered hands, and . . . Let’s just say that as soon as ASIMO is spotted behind the wheel (figure of speech, there is no wheel!) of one particular of Google’s autonomous vehicles, we’re running for the hills.
Honda Debuts Most current ASIMO Humanoid Robot, Machine Takeover Imminent
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