JAKARTA - Humanoid robot ASIMO Honda Motor Co. will end his 20-year career wowing the public with a walking and dancing demonstration at the automaker's Tokyo headquarters on Thursday.
According to information from Kyodo, Honda has stopped all development of the ASIMO in recent years following its latest upgrade in 2011, to make autonomous decisions such as avoiding bumping into someone while walking.
Ahead of Asimo's last performance, fans visited the Honda showroom to meet and say goodbye to this smart robot.
Honda has said that it will continue selling ASIMO goods after the robot wearing the astronaut suit retires. The decision was made to keep the character active.
Since its debut in 2000, Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility aka Asimo has become a symbol of Japan's pioneering robotic technology. Asimo mastered the ability to run, jump on one leg, speak sign language and pour coffee into a tumbler. Asimo also demonstrated his ability in 2002, where Asimo rang the stock market bell to open a trading session on the 25th anniversary of Honda's listing on the New Stock Exchange. York.
Then in 2014, the two-legged robot greeted US President Barack Obama when he visited Japan in English. ASIMO is also exhibiting kicking a ball and jumping at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.
Since then, the robot has demonstrated its human-like abilities at science museums as well as in Honda showrooms.
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