End of the line for Asimo, Japan's famed robot?

terminated Asimo and dissolved the team

Sounds like a scene from a Schwarzenegger movie

OK, so pre-2000 development, debuts in 2000, and 18+ years later, it's done nothing more than media stunts. The future of Japanese nursing homes and elderly residents is officially screwed.

Feels like a part of me had died..

This is the Japan advanced robotic's myth played out.

I am really disappointed in this news and in Honda. The Government should nationalize this division of Honda, if Honda no longer wants to produce the robot. The next Generations of Asimov robots could be used to work in factories, in hospitals and nursing homes, in farms for fruit and vegetable picking and for giving directions to foreigners in various languages in Train Stations and Airport. I have met an Asimov in a hotel in Hokkaido and it was extremely clever and helpful.

"This is the Japan advanced robotic's myth played out."

Perhaps you ought to partake your inside knowledge of Japan's backwardness with the FT?!

https://www.ft.com/content/2cff1dba-9f87-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946

Japan's advanced robotics "myth" played out!!!

https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/robots-japan-delivers-52-percent-of-global-supply

Anyone who has worked with Asimo knows that it need a technical team for every performance, specially levelled flooring, and travelled with a back-up model. Not exactly an autonomous, independent model. Probably Honda should get away from the 'human' look, and build something that works and delivers.

Pepper must be getting a little nervous over at Softbank.

This is the problem with many Japanese companies.... the do crap for show not for dough.

All mammals are stuck with four limbs. Humans learned to walk upright to free two limbs so as to manipulate things, but from a biomechanical perspective, walking on two limbs sucks (which is why cows can outrun humans). Robots are not so constrained: A four-legged robot with other limbs for manipulation makes much more sense. Check out Boston Dynamic's SpotMini, for example. There is zero reason to be anthropomorphic. https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot-mini

^ Make a sagittarius.

good

aaaahhhh So sad, My son met Asimo on stage auto show Bangkok 2006 or so. Shook his little robo-paw

Too bad they couldn't build robots that could help them with nuclear disaster recovery like the ones they bought from France. Get a feeling they'll need more of those