The U.S. and China are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker. Whoever wins could gain an edge in countless ...

While Asimo was never destined for factory work like Tesla CEO claims the Optimus robot will be one day, Honda learned a lot about human-machine interaction until Asimo was retired in 2018.

Long before there was Optimus, there was Asimo. Not a lot of people know this, but Honda was actually experimenting with ...

Fans of technology will recall a number of years when Honda’s humanoid robot Asimo seemed to be everywhere. In addition to its day job in a research lab, Asimo had a public relations side gig ...

Up until a few years ago, Honda’s Asimo was the friendly face of robotic research. The Japanese industrial giant has been experimenting with a humanoid-type robot since the mid-80s, when it revealed ...

Chinese engineers have gathered in the factory of a luxury electric vehicle brand to test a new technology the country’s ...

The humanoid robot, much like the hoverboard, is a long-tenured item on the list of science-fiction promises left unfulfilled. For years, the technology’s standard-bearer was Honda’s Asimo ...

Coming from a lab in France is The Poppy Project, an open source humanoid robot that’s at least as cool as ASIMO. Poppy was designed as an affordable bipedal robot for use in education and art.

As for ASIMO, we'll be impressed when he drops the baton and picks up Yo-Yo Ma's violin to play a flawless performance of Mozart's 4th. Well here's an Aw Snap! for Honda: Toyota already built that ...

Meet your future robot coworker March 16, 2025 By Kim Komando Humanoid robots have come a long way. In 2000, Honda’s $2.5 million ASIMO could barely shuffle along at 1 mph.