Honda's Asimo demos on their North Hall stage have been drawing large crowds, likely full of people hoping to see the bipedal 'bot take another tumble. Monday's demos didn't come through in that respect, but the gathered onlookeres were instead treated to a different spectacle: Asimo's "running" capabilities. While it may look like a child astronaut urgently needing a restroom (or a child astronaut who has mastered a sort of fast-motion pimp walk), Asimo's four-mph jog—in which both feet leave the ground for a brief .08 seconds at the height of the stride—is nonetheless a pretty amazing sight. —John Mahoney
Check out the little guy warming up and then making the dash below:
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The future is now, and it makes me giggle.
so uh... did that trigger a fight or flight impulse in anyone elses lizard brain? I'm not kidding, I have a deep desire to stop that thing right now.
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!
I like the nod, letting her know that it's ready
That is the scariest thing I have ever seen.
I for one bow to our new robot overlords and wish to remind them as a native human I can facilitate the easy transition period.
LONG LIVE BUSH!!!
It runs like a frightened little girl.
Eric, I'm with you on that one. Fight response here.
his voice is like a 7 year old who's trying to sound older.
BTW, the kill it with fire comment actually made me laugh out loud, lol.
hehe, running like shited in! :D
anyway burning it... where are you man? midle age??! pfff
yeah, soon we'll be all locked up in our hibernation suits steering one of these ourselves, because "anything is possible".
Fight wars, have sex. And when you loose one, you have to go buy another. But if you don't have the money? You'll be thrown in the pit.
Hoorah for future civilization! Just connect Second Life to actual life with these things and you're done.
Well, there will prolly be a mass hippie movement growing new trees, and.. oh man, my head, we could go on forever. hehe.
Now if he could only C-Walk!!!
I, the last human standing, proudly laugh at you robot overlords. Ha ha ha! May I become the last martyr for humankind! Now shoot me! Aaargh! Gurgll!
You know, there really is something creepy about that, just kinda unsettling. I guess for now all you have to do is give it a gentle shove and it'll topple over, but with the way these things are advancing, how long until this thing is chasing you down and knocking you over for laughing at it?
I thought it'd be funny if it ran of the stage and fell on someone
He runs like he's pinchin' off the last of an accidental fart....trying desperately to save his underpants.
You remember how Shaggy used to kinda creep-walk in haunted houses?
Have you guys seen "I Robot" with Will Smith? Yeah, I can see something like that happening!
Go to the site,
www.humansunitedagainstrobots.com
before it's too late!
Is more fun to see it fall down =D
ng said, "KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!"
Funniest g-ddammned thing I have read on the Intarweb this year!.
Why is she talking to a machine like a baby? That's just weird!
When it can do gymnastics like those summer Olympic athletes and shoot like the winter Olympians I will start to sweat. Until then, I will just chuckle.
I am going to recommend "killing it with fire" to solve every problem I have from now on.
Oh geez... am I the only one who thought that maybe this whole scheme is going to be exploited by all of the pro-border-control campers? Shove all of those illegals back to mex-EE-ko and use these little robo-migrant-workers instead. You gotta admit... it'd be efficient... but I'm not sure how ethical...
but hey, since when did ethics ever enter the minds of CEO's? $$$