Showing posts with label ASIMO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASIMO. Show all posts

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Like ASIMO? Here's LAND WALKER - Like The Imperial Walker In Star Wars

Ok. If you thought ASIMO was a cool advance in human-like mechanics, or Mecha, then check out this device called The Land Walker. It's 11 feet tall, weighs about a ton, costs $315,000. and has side machine guns. The only problem I can see is that it moves slow and seems to be movable on a flat surface, rather than an uneven one.

ASIMO - Honda's Robot Experiment Has Evolved Into Running Entity



What you're about to see is ASIMO -- Honda Corporations 20-year old experimental robot project which is at the point where the latest version can run up to four miles per hour. The video below shows the ASIMO robot in running action, and there are no wires.

Reportedly Honda's designed this robot to be used to help people, and the ASIMO website seems to imply this. But as ASIMO has reached this stage of development, the question of what would happen if ASIMO got into the wrong hands must be asked. Could this robot be used to deliver explosive devices for terrorists? How can one protect the technology from getting into the wrong hands?

Scary stuff, where we're aheaded.