Honda Unveils Improved Humanoid Robot

By Yuri Kageyama
Associated Press
posted: 03:45 pm ET
11 December 2002

TOKYO (AP) -- Honda Motor Co. may have come up with the most attentive and perhaps honest car dealer ever in its child-size walking robot Asimo.

The 1.2-meter (4-foot) tall machine, which first went on sale two years ago, already knew how to walk, climb stairs and recognize voices. The upgraded version also understands human gestures and movement.
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