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Honda’s smug ASIMO robot is incredibly annoying — here in Japan it’s hard to get through a single day without being subjected to his capering antics on TV and in magazines. Which makes it all the more disturbing that Honda has bestowed the bungling ‘bot with even greater powers.
Aside from running at a 100% faster 6kph, ASIMO now has:
“…the ability to pursue key tasks in a real-life environment such as an office and an advanced level of physical capabilities. Compared to the previous model, the new ASIMO achieves the enhanced ability to act in sync with people — for example, walking with a person while holding hands.”
Reading between the lines, it seems Honda’s tin man has his beady eyes on both our jobs and our girlfriends. Check out the Honda site and you’ll see that he even manages to serve tea to visitors, leaving little work for us gore-based employees to do. The official ASIMO videos are also here:
First move on the office lady, without checking out the rear view.
Zooming in on her, er, chest-affixed IC tag.
Finally getting his hands on the cute Kobayashi-san.
(Via Honda)
01:07 PM 
Mark Hiratsuka •
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