This Week In Bots: When Buck Rogers Became Real

Asimo Gets An Upgrade For robot fans, Honda’s Asimo has perhaps always been the biggest treasure: He’s been in development for decades, and Honda just this week revealed a refresh that makes Asimo the most advanced yet. There’s a host of improvements, from slicker and faster gaits, more sophisticated movements, individually articulated fingers (flexible enough to cope with sign language) to improved voice recognition that can discern commands even when three voices are talking at once. The best way to understand how advanced this child-sized bot is nowadays is to watch this video: Asimo is, arguably, just one step away from being the science fiction robots we’ve been seeing for years

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This Week In Bots: When Buck Rogers Became Real