ASIMO
n., humanoid.Honda, Japan, 2000. The world's most famous walking robot for two decades; retired to museum duty in 2022. Retired.
ASIMO crowned two decades of Honda's secret P-series walking research and toured the world shaking hands with presidents. Honda retired the programme in 2022, folding its balance and actuation research into avatar robots and, eventually, a return announced for its 0-series era.
- Height
- approx. 130 cm
- Pace
- approx. 2.5 m/s run
- Generations
- 2000 to 2011