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day 5 in Tokyo: embracing our robot overlords and Tokyo DisneySea

Sunday, June 10, we really slept in and did not hit the 7-11 til nearly 10am!  It felt good.  Then, we took the train to hit a museum all of us were really excited about:  Miraikan, aka the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, aka the “robot museum.”

But before we got there, we walked over to the Museum of Maritime Science and saw the nearby Soya, the first ship used for Japanese…

Honda Design a ASIMO-Style Robot For Disaster Response

Honda is building up another form of their ASIMO robot that could be valuable in dangerous settings to keep people out of hurt's way. The current ASIMO robot is apparently the most exceptional robot in the world, so why didn't Honda put their robots into action during  the Fukushima Nuclear disaster?

Honda didn't simply dispatch ASIMO (apparently one of the crucial most refined and prepared…

Honda’nın Yeni Asimo Robotu Tanıtıldı !

Honda Robotics tarafından geliştirilen Asimo, ilk olarak 2000′li yıllarda görücüye çıkartılmıştı. Daha sonra geliştirilerek çok farklı işlevler kazanan yeni Asimo, özellikle insanları algılayarak yolda yürürken çarpmaması, su şişesini açıp bardağa suyu doldurması gibi dikkat çekici özellikler eklenmiş durumda.

Artık yeni asimo 9 km/s hızında koşabiliyor. Tek ayak ve iki ayağının üzerinde dengeli…

VIDEO: President Obama Plays Soccer With Japanese Robot

President Obama spent a few minutes playing soccer with a humanoid robot named “Asimo” during his tour of Tokyo’s Miraikan Science Expo on Thursday. Photo: AFP

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