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Honda's ASIMO A Few Steps Closer To Human

Posted by timothy on from the no-turing-test-winner dept.

Rauchenator points to an article on Yahoo! about "the new enhanced Honda Asimo which now can gracefully walk down stairs, respond to human commands and even work like a receptionist (Sit there). The Honda site even has videos showcasing the robot doing its thing. The article points out that the robot makes celebrity-size salaries when put on display, too."

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  1. Re:Isaac Asimov by JimPooley · · Score: 4, Interesting

    However the word "Robot" pre-dates Asimov.
    Czech playwright Karol Capek wrote "Rossum's Universal Robots" in 1921, deriving the word 'robot' from a Czech word for forced labour.
    This is where our current defintion of robot comes from, and all its derivations.
    Incidentally, the first entertainment to feature 'robots' had them rebelling against their human masters.

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