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Old 08-11-2021, 08:22 PM
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I don't know how many of you have heard of the ASIMO series of walking robots. I saw one of the earlier models do a demo show back in college. Honda stopped the whole project in 2018 because it wasn't profitable. Plus, y'know, it wasn't actually leading to artificial intelligence, the robots were essentially remote-controlled all the time.


Anyway, here are some clips of robots falling off stairs. I shudder to think of the repair costs, and they probably had to replace the gyroscope after every fall.



And the amazing thing that I learned today is that Garrison Keillor once narrated a Honda commercial featuring ASIMO.
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