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Honda robot Asimo makes balky tour guide (With 2010 Video)

Featured Image: HONDA ASIMO Robot. CREDIT: Vanillase SOURCE Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain).

From USA Today By Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press 5:06 a.m. EDT July 6, 2013

TOKYO — Honda.’s walking, talking interactive robot is running into glitches in its new job as a museum guide in Tokyo.

The bubble-headed Asimo machine had problems telling the difference between people raising their hands to ask questions and those aiming their smartphones to take photos at the Miraikan science museum.

It froze mid-action and repeated a programmed remark, “Who wants to ask Asimo a question?” . . . Read Complete Report

From youtube uploaded by  Sébastien Barbieri on Sep 6, 2010

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Random Robot Roundup & Robot of the Day (W/Video)

Photo: Robots.net’s Robot of the day: Insectronic is an autonomous six legged walking robot. . . . read more

from Robots.net

Posted 10 Nov 2012 at 02:27 UTC

(updated 10 Nov 2012 at 16:13 UTC) by steve

Purdue University received a $6 million grant to develop an autonomous agricultural robot capable of pruning grape vineyards and apple orchards. Let’s hope the Purdue robot puts up a fence around the orchard to keep out theRobo-squirrels being developed at the University of California. UC is also advancing the state of the art in split-brain research. . . . Read Complete Report

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from youtube

New Honda Robot ASIMO 2012 – All features and behaviors

posted by seminarpaper

Uploaded on Jan 6, 2012