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ASIMO

• Presentation by
• Chau Dinh Huy
• Lyess Mokadem

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CONTENT

• History
• Company
• Organisation
• Features of ASIMO robot
• Conclusion
• References

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HISTORY
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COMPANY

• Company Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
• Head Office 2-1-1 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku
  Tokyo
  107-8556, Japan
  Tel [phone]
• Established September 1948
• President Takeo Fukui

Aoyama building
Wako building
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ORGANISATION

• Capital 86 billion
• Number of employees
• Consolidated 137,827
• Unconsolidated 27,045
• Sales
• Consolidated 9,907,996 million
• Unconsolidated 3,757,087 million
• Chief products motocycles, automobiles, power
  productions.

(as of March 31, 2006)
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FEATURES gt Head, Eyes, Neck, Body, Backpack,
Arms, Mid-Section, Hips, Hands, Knees, Feet.
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gt walk smoothly, climb stairs, recognize people's
voices and faces will enable ASIMO to easily
function in our world and truly assist humans.
 
 

• The new ASIMO is now capable of running at a
  speed of 6km/hour and of running in a circular
  pattern.
• Even when a strong force from the side pushes and
  changes the movement of the cart,
• ASIMO can bring it back of course.
• With a newly developed total control system,
  ASIMO can deliver drinks on a tray
• ASIMO copies the host of Say 'Hello' to Honda's
  ASIMO.
• ASIMO disco dances to demonstrate its smooth
  motion.

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• ASIMO can move its arms and gesture while
  walking.
• ASIMO uses 26 servomotors to balance on one foot.
  
• ASIMO can maintain balance on one foot while
  kicking a soccer ball.

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• ASIMO's ability to climb a set of stairs is the
  culmination of nearly
• 2 decades of research and development.
• ASIMO is the only humanoid robot that can ascend
  and
• descend stairs independently
• ASIMO is 4 feet tall (120 cm), so ASIMO is at eye
  level
• with a person sitting down or in a wheelchair.

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• ASIMO teaches kids safe street crossing
  procedures
• in its new video  Step to Safety with ASIMO 
• ASIMO's design and construction
• are the result of contributions from many fields
  of academic study.
• Physic
• Anatomy
• Mathematics
• Computer sciences
• Chemistry
• Mechanical and Electrical engineering
• The purpose of ASIMO's nationwide university tour
  is to inspire students to pursue careers in the
  sciences.

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• The ASIMO tour is geared towards college
  students, but can be enjoyed by people of all
  ages.
• ASIMO travelled to Tallinn, Estonia recently to
  help launch a new Honda science scholarship for
  the
• Tallinn University of Technology.
• This was the first public demonstration of the
  humanoid robot's voice, face and gesture
  recognition capabilities in Europe.
• ASIMO fans helped welcome ASIMO to its new home
  inside Disneyland (Anahelm, California).

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In tallin last visit the aim wasgt
 

• The Honda scholarship, which runs for two years,
  aims to inspire the next generation of scientists
  and engineers in Estonia and rewards students who
  excel in the fields of robotics and alternative
  energy. The winners of each scholarship will be
  selected by a panel of judges, including
  representatives from the University and Honda
  Baltic.
• Honda is supporting the University because of its
  common interest in developing and nurturing the
  talents of young people. The company is committed
  to social activity with a philosophy to "foster a
  spirited and dynamic people and society for the
  next generation." Toward this goal, Honda
  implements various social activities which are
  designed to communicate to young people the
  importance and joy of having dreams, taking on
  new challenges, and creating.
• Power of dreams

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CONCLUSION

• By showing their determination to ease human
  tasks Honda has clearly proved that their key
  word  Power of dreams  just become true with
  Asimo!
• In addition to that Honda is making profit and
  improvement for Hondas car for instance
• By making robot in order to help people who are
  disable Honda show itself as a company that take
  care about people and make a step forward in
  social activity and supporting studies that way
  they can make sure future ingineer will provide
  them with their young talent.
• In fact Honda is becoming more and more present
  because of their achievement in robotic and truly
  reflect their determination to make dreams come
  true!

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FUTURE

• Honda do not comment on the future of Asimo and
  technologies so that I give my own opinion.
• In my opinion robot like Asimo will definetely
  help security and improves cars as well as
  helping disable person also might be helpful in
  hostile environment (like disarm bombs or dealing
  in toxic area) but wont drag us in any way to
  fiction like I-Robot. To give an example it
  should be more like K-2000 and Michael Night so
  technology in robotic would help us in daily
  life. Like it does already with voice commands
  and also system from Asimo into new Honda that
  ablecars to avoid walkers.

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References

• http//asimo.honda.com/index.asp?bhcp1
• http//billaut.typepad.com/jm/2006/01/quest_que_ce
  la_.html
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4098201.stm
• http//www.honda-robots.com

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• QUESTIONS ???