Honda's ASIMO robot was at the OSU campus as part of a tour of North
America. If I'd known about this I would have made the trip down to Columbus myself. There is nothing cooler than an
old school science fictional looking robot made real like ASIMO.
Though checking out this description (scroll about halfway down) of the
event, even had I gone it would have been standing room only. Some 4,000 fellow robot nuts like myself packed into a
cramped 600 seat section of the Drake Performance Center to see ASIMO shake it's groove thang.
Fortunately
there's google video. This clip shows the complete presentation, including spoken intros by someone at OSU and a fellow
from Honda. ASIMO makes his/her/its appearance at about 6:30 in this 37-minute video.
ASIMO at OSU
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Hi Matt, the ASIMO has an acronym, but it's named after Isaac Asimov, the famous SF writer who coined the 'Three Laws of Robotics' and wrote about robots a lot in his fiction. You may remember the Wil Smith 'I, Robot' movie that was very, very, very loosely based on Asimov's book that came out not too long ago...
Posted at 12:50PM on Apr 18th 2006 by tobias s buckell
3. I went to see Asimo when he was here in Columbus and he was very, very cool. I had to stand along the side wall, but was glad to be there. I came out of the preso wanting one in my house--you know, 'Asimo, to get me a beer and vacuum the carpet.' Robots are going to be a huge business one day. One big problem is power: Asimo only runs for about 30 minutes before they have to charge him back up.
I gotta ask why it's posted now when the appearance was about a year ago?
Posted at 1:13PM on Apr 18th 2006 by Tom
4. Because I have apparently have trouble reading dates. Someone forwarded it to me as if it happened more recently. Sorry about that!
Posted at 2:05PM on Apr 18th 2006 by tobias s buckell
1. The name of the robot is strikingly close to a particular robot on a South Park episide. Cartman creates a robot costume out of cardboard boxes and pretends he is a robot with the name of AWESOME-O.
Posted at 12:47PM on Apr 18th 2006 by Matt Sidesinger