Advanced Bipedal Humanoid (ASIMO)
Robots learn to walk like humans.
Explore this event on the interactive timeline →After over a decade of secret development, Honda debuted ASIMO, proving that dynamic bipedal walking was mechanically possible for a robot.
Key Numbers
- Capabilities
- Dynamic Bipedal Walking
- Control
- Scripted / Mechanical
Verified Facts
- ASIMO could walk, run, climb stairs, and interact with humans. However, it was strictly a research platform, relying on heavily scripted programming rather than true AI.
- It cost millions to develop and build a single unit, marking the high-water mark of pre-AI, purely mechanical robotics before the shift to neural-network driven humanoids in the 2020s.