{"id":100850,"date":"2014-04-17T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=100850"},"modified":"2014-04-17T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T07:47:33","slug":"new-honda-asimo-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/100850-new-honda-asimo-robot.html","title":{"rendered":"New Honda ASIMO robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It walks and runs, even up and down stairs. It can open a bottle and serve a drink, and politely tries to shake hands with a stranger. Meet the latest ASIMO, Honda\u2019s humanoid robot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello New York! Thank you for coming today!\u201d the little guy chirped in English, the recorded voice of a teenaged boy, at his US debut Wednesday in a Manhattan hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Resembling a tiny astronaut, ASIMO \u2014 decked out in a white suit and helmet \u2014 stands 4 feet three inches (1.3 meters) tall and weighs in at 110 lbs (50 kg).<\/p>\n<p>ASIMO \u2014 short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility \u2014 was designed to help people, potentially in cases of reduced mobility. The first model was unveiled in 2000 after 14 years of research during which scientists studied human movements in an effort to replicate them.<\/p>\n<p>The latest demonstration highlighted the robot\u2019s increased flexibility and balance \u2014 ASIMO can now jump \u2014 as well as sign language abilities. It can now also run at a speed of 5.6 miles per hour (9 km\/h).<\/p>\n<p>Researchers think that one day it could help the elderly \u2014 say by getting a snack or turning the lights off \u2014 when their ability to get around is reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cASIMO was designed to help those in society who need assistance, and Honda believes that these improvements in ASIMO bring us another step closer to our ultimate goal of being able to help all kinds of people in need,\u201d said Satoshi Shigemi, senior chief engineer at Honda R&amp;D Co., Ltd. Japan responsible for humanoid robotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand what people expect from ASIMO and what people want ASIMO to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPJy1-AO17I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on robots<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Honda shows smarter robot\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/37799-honda-shows-smarter-robot.html\"><strong>Honda shows smarter robot<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resembling a tiny astronaut, ASIMO &#8212; decked out in a white suit and helmet &#8212; stands 4 feet three inches (1.3 meters) tall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":100854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,6531,6529,6266],"class_list":["post-100850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-asimo","tag-honda","tag-robot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100852,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100850\/revisions\/100852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}