ASIMO

ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), often called Honda ASIMO, was a bipedal humanoid robot developed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Honda dates the robot's creation to October 31, 2000, and announced it and first demonstrated it at its Tokyo headquarters on November 20, 2000. ^[1][2] The original model stood 120 cm tall, weighed 43 kg and had 26 degrees of freedom. ^[1] Over the next eleven years Honda released a series of upgraded versions, ending with the "all-new ASIMO" of November 2011, which stood 130 cm tall, weighed 48 kg, had 57 degrees of freedom and could run at 9 km/h (5.6 mph). ^[3][4] Honda made ASIMO available through rental and leasing and used it for demonstrations, and the Computer History Museum puts the number built at about 100. ^[5][6]

ASIMO
General information
Manufacturer	Honda
Country of origin	Japan
Year unveiled	2000
Year retired	2022
Full name	Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility
Height	130 cm (4 ft 3 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Degrees of freedom	57
Max running speed	9 km/h (5.6 mph)
Battery	51.8V lithium-ion
Operating time	About 1 hour
Units built	About 100
Website	global.honda

ASIMO grew out of a bipedal locomotion research program that Honda began in 1986, which produced the experimental E series of walking legs and the P series of full humanoid prototypes before ASIMO appeared. ^[1][7] In June 2018 Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that Honda had stopped further ASIMO development, and the robot gave its farewell performance on March 31, 2022, at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo after more than two decades of regular demonstrations. ^[8][9] Honda says that all ASIMO units together took more than 33.26 million steps and walked a combined 7,907 km (4,913 miles). ^[10]

Name

ASIMO stands for "Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility," the explanation Honda gave when it announced the robot in 2000. ^[1] The name is also often linked to the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. The car-culture site Japanese Nostalgic Car describes the name as both an homage to Asimov and a pun on the Japanese word ashi (leg) combined with "mo" for mobility. ^[11] Other accounts reject the Asimov link: IEEE's Robots Guide says the acronym was derived from the Japanese word for foot or leg, and the British Comedy Guide's page for the QI episode in which ASIMO appeared says the resemblance to Asimov's name is a coincidence, with the name coming from "asi" (feet) and "mo" (movement). ^[19][29] Honda's own announcements explain the name only as the acronym.

Development before ASIMO (1986 to 2000)

Honda's humanoid research began in 1986 with the goal of developing an autonomous walking robot that could be helpful to people. ^[1] Honda later described the reasoning: a robot that could move between objects in a room and climb stairs would need two legs, like a person. ^[12] The work passed through two prototype families, the E series and the P series, before ASIMO. Honda kept the program secret until it announced P2 in 1996. ^[13]

E series (1986 to 1993)

The E series ("E" for experimental) consisted of seven legs-only walking machines with no torso or arms, built to solve stable two-legged walking. ^[13]

Table sources: ^[13][7]

E0 walked by putting one leg in front of the other, but only slowly and in a straight line, using static walking in which the center of gravity always stays over the sole of the foot. Honda's European technical documentation says E0 took nearly five seconds between steps, while Honda's current history page gives 15 seconds per step. ^[12][7] E0 had 6 degrees of freedom, one in each hip, knee and ankle. From E1 onward the robots had 12: three in each hip, one in each knee and two in each ankle. ^[13]

For E1 through E3 (1987 to 1991), Honda studied human and animal walking, wrote dynamic walking programs from human walking data and transferred them to the robots. E2 reached fast walking at 1.2 km/h on flat ground, and E3 reached 3 km/h, about the average human walking pace. ^[7][13] For E4 through E6 (1991 to 1993), Honda worked on walk stabilization and developed three posture controls. E4 lengthened the knee to reach 4.7 km/h, E5 walked autonomously, and E6 could balance autonomously, walk over obstacles and climb stairs. ^[7][13]

P series (1993 to 2000)

With two-legged walking working, Honda attached torsos and arms to the walking platform in the P series ("P" for prototype). ^[7]

Table sources: ^[7][14][15]

P1 (1993) was Honda's first humanoid model. It used an external power source and computer and could turn a switch on and off, grab a doorknob and carry an object. ^[7] Its existence was kept secret until the P2 announcement. ^[15]

P2 (December 1996) put the computer, motor drives, battery and wireless equipment inside the torso, so it could walk, climb up and down stairs and push carts wirelessly. Honda describes it as the world's first bipedal humanoid walking robot. ^[7] Honda's specification sheet lists 12 leg, 14 arm and 4 hand degrees of freedom and a maximum working load of 5 kg per hand. ^[14] In April 2026, P2 was recognized as an IEEE Milestone by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ^[16]

P3 (September 1997) was a completely independent bipedal humanoid walking robot. Honda reduced its size and weight to 160 cm and 130 kg by reviewing component materials and adopting distributed control. ^[7] Its specification sheet lists 28 degrees of freedom (one per hand instead of two) and a working load of 2 kg per hand. ^[14]

P4 (2000), at 160 cm and 80 kg with 34 degrees of freedom, was first unveiled as the "P3-improved prototype". ^[15] It went on public display under the P4 name in March 2010, when Honda moved it to the Honda Collection Hall at Twin Ring Motegi. ^[41]

ASIMO versions (2000 to 2011)

Version comparison

Table sources: 2000 ^[1][15]; 2002 figures are the "current model" values given in Honda's December 2004 release ^[17]; 2004 ^[17]; 2005 ^[18]; 2011 ^[4][12][19]; battery chemistry change in 2004 ^[20]. The December 2007 update added software and intelligence functions and published no new physical specifications; Honda's 2011 release described the all-new model as 6 kg lighter and 23 degrees of freedom richer than its predecessor. ^[21][4]

2000: the original ASIMO

Honda presented ASIMO as a further evolved, much smaller version of P3: height fell from 160 cm to 120 cm and weight from 130 kg to 43 kg, through a redesigned skeletal frame with thinner walls and a specially designed control unit. ^[1] Honda chose 120 cm because it considered that height the optimum for operating household switches, reaching doorknobs and working at tables and benches, ^[1] and it later said it considered a height between 120 cm and that of an adult ideal for working in human living spaces, with the robot's eyes at the level of a seated adult's. ^[12]

The main technical change was "predicted movement control," which predicted the robot's next move and shifted its center of gravity accordingly. Combined with Honda's earlier walking control, it formed the intelligent real-time flexible walking technology Honda called i-WALK, which allowed smooth changes of direction. ^[1][5] Honda also set the shoulders 20 degrees higher than on P3, which let the elbows rise to 15 degrees above horizontal and increased vertical arm movement from 90 to 105 degrees. ^[1] At the launch, Honda president and CEO Hiroyuki Yoshino said, "Honda has taken up a new challenge in mobility." ^[1]

Table source: ^[1]

2001: rental model

On November 12, 2001, Honda introduced an improved ASIMO to be rented out in Japan. It extended i-WALK from level ground to three-dimensional movement on stairs and slopes, including long staircases and turning on the spot on a slope. It could follow a prescribed route set by a start point, an end point and a few relay points, correcting its foot placement step by step, and a "mark-recognition sensor" corrected position errors over long distances. ^[5] The monitoring workstation was replaced by a compact laptop, the voice-recognition function moved from an external PC into the robot's body, and a new automatic adjustment system cut start-up time from 40 minutes to 4. ASIMO could also turn toward the direction of a voice and take voice commands for arm, hand and walking motions. ^[5]

2002: intelligence technology

On December 5, 2002, Honda released a new model that could interpret human postures and gestures and move independently in response. It could follow the movement of people with its head camera, greet a person who approached, move to a location someone pointed to, shake an offered hand and wave back at a wave. ^[22] It could stop for a person or object that suddenly appeared in its path, recognize when its name was called and turn toward the speaker, turn toward sudden sounds such as a falling object, and recognize about ten pre-registered faces, addressing those people by name. ^[22] Through integration with a user's network it could greet visitors and notify staff of their arrival with a picture of the visitor's face, and over the Internet it could provide news and weather. Honda planned to start renting this version to public institutions and companies from January 2003. ^[22]

2004: running

On December 15, 2004, Honda announced technologies for a next-generation ASIMO. ^[17] New "Posture Control" technology let the robot proactively bend and twist its torso to prevent foot slippage and spinning in the air at higher speeds, so it could run at 3 km/h. Its step cycle while running was 0.36 seconds with 0.05 seconds airborne, which Honda compared to a person jogging. Walking speed rose from 1.6 km/h to 2.5 km/h, and a new high-speed processing circuit and high-power motor drive unit gave hardware performance more than four times faster than the previous model. ^[17]

"Autonomous Continuous Movement" technology let ASIMO compare stored map information with its floor surface sensor readings and change its path when its floor and head-mounted visual sensors detected obstacles. New force sensors in the wrists let it give or receive an object, shake hands in time with a person's movement and step forward or back when its hand was pulled or pushed. ^[17] The new model grew to 130 cm and 54 kg, with 34 degrees of freedom: Honda added a hip rotation joint, two extra axes in each wrist, a separate motor for the thumb (previously one motor drove all five fingers) and an extra neck axis. Continuous operating time doubled from 30 minutes to one hour. ^[17] The longer running time came with a switch from a nickel-metal hydride battery to a 51.8V lithium-ion battery. ^[20]

2005: office tasks and faster running

On December 13, 2005, Honda debuted a new ASIMO aimed at real tasks in an environment such as an office. ^[18] Using its visual sensors, floor surface sensor, ultrasonic sensor and an "IC Tele-interaction Communication Card" carried by the person it was serving, it could work as a receptionist or information guide, and with its head camera and wrist force sensors it could hand over and receive objects such as a tray. It could walk hand in hand with a person and push a cart, adjusting the force of each arm and slowing or turning when the cart's movement was disturbed. A "total control system" let it carry out receptionist, guide and delivery tasks automatically. ^[18][7]

Running speed doubled to 6 km/h, with an airborne time of 0.08 seconds, and ASIMO could run in a circle at 5 km/h (2.5 m radius) by tilting its center of gravity toward the inside of the circle. ^[18] Honda planned to start operating this model at its office in the Honda Wako Building in spring 2006 and to make it available for leasing. ^[18]

Table source: ^[18]

2007: multiple robots working together

On December 11, 2007, Honda announced intelligence technologies that let ASIMO act autonomously and provide uninterrupted service to office guests. ^[21]

• Working together: networked ASIMOs constantly shared their status. The system calculated each robot's distance from each task and took remaining battery levels into account to find the most time-efficient way to divide the work, and if one ASIMO stopped to recharge, the others took over its tasks. ^[21]
• Avoiding oncoming people: ASIMO used its eye camera to calculate the direction and speed of oncoming people, chose a path that would not block them, and stepped back to yield the right of way when there was not enough room. ^[21]
• Autonomous charging: when its battery fell below a set level, ASIMO walked to the nearest available charging station and recharged while standing. ^[21]
• Task performance: improved tray carrying and cart pushing. ^[21]

Honda began test operations of two ASIMOs with these functions on December 12, 2007, in the second-floor lobby of its Aoyama headquarters in Tokyo, where they guided visitors and delivered refreshments on weekday afternoons until January 31, 2008. ^[21]

2011: the all-new ASIMO

On November 8, 2011, Honda unveiled an "all-new ASIMO" equipped with what it called the world's first autonomous behavior control technology (a claim based on Honda's internal research), so that the robot could keep moving without being controlled by an operator. Honda said the robot had advanced from an "automatic machine" to an "autonomous machine" that could decide its behavior based on its surroundings, such as the movements of people. ^[4]

Intelligence: a new system combined inputs from sensors equivalent to human sight, hearing and touch, estimated what was happening around the robot and chose its behavior. ASIMO could stop what it was doing to accommodate another person's intention, recognize a face and a voice at the same time, and distinguish the voices of several people speaking at once (Honda demonstrated three). Using pre-set space sensors, it could predict where a person would walk within the next few seconds and take another path to avoid a collision. ^[4][7]

Physical ability: stronger legs, a wider range of leg movement and a control method that could change the landing position in the middle of a motion let ASIMO walk, run, run backward and hop continuously on one leg or two, and walk over uneven surfaces while keeping its balance. ^[4] IEEE Spectrum reported that it could also recover from a much harder push by quickly taking a stabilizing step. ^[3] Running speed rose to 9 km/h. ^[4]

Hands: Honda developed a compact multi-fingered hand with a tactile sensor in the palm and a force sensor in each finger, with each finger controlled independently. Combined with visual and tactile object recognition, the hands let ASIMO pick up a glass bottle and twist off the cap, hold a soft paper cup and pour a liquid without crushing it, and make sign language expressions such as the Japanese sign for "family." ^[4] Each hand had 13 degrees of freedom, up from one per hand in 2000. ^[12][1]

Table source: ^[12]

At the same event Honda introduced "Honda Robotics" as a collective name for its robotics technologies and products, and showed an experimental remote-controlled task-performing robot arm for disaster sites that used ASIMO's posture control and its control technology for driving as many as 57 joint motors at once. ^[4]

How ASIMO worked

Locomotion and balance

ASIMO's walking control built on the Zero Moment Point (ZMP), which Honda defines as the point where the total inertial force is zero. Honda developed three posture controls for stable walking: ^[12]

1. Ground reaction control: firm standing control of the soles of the feet while absorbing unevenness in the floor.
2. Target ZMP control: when the soles cannot stand firmly, the upper body is accelerated in the direction the robot may fall, to keep its position.
3. Foot planting location control: stride length is adjusted to correct deviations in upper-body position caused by target ZMP control.

i-WALK added predicted movement control on top of this. When a person walking in a straight line decides to turn, they shift their center of gravity toward the inside of the turn first; Honda wrote that ASIMO "can predict its next movement in real time and shift its centre of gravity in anticipation," whereas "previous prototypes turned according to combinations of stored walking patterns." Because ASIMO generated walking patterns in real time, it could change foot placement, turning angle and stride length at will. ^[12]

Sensors and perception

• Vision: two camera "eyes" in the head were used to recognize moving objects and their distance and direction, postures, gestures, the surroundings and faces. ^[20][22]
• Ground sensors: a laser sensor and an infrared sensor in the lower torso detected the floor surface and pairs of floor markings. ^[20]
• Ultrasonic sensors: front and rear ultrasonic sensors detected obstacles. ^[20]
• Feet: a six-axis force sensor in each foot. ^[1][19]
• Torso: a gyroscope and a deceleration sensor. ^[1]
• Wrists and hands: force sensors in the wrists from 2004, and tactile and force sensors in the palm and fingers of the 2011 hands. ^[17][4]

For navigation, ASIMO combined a pre-loaded map with the detection of floor markings to identify its position and keep adjusting it. ^[20]

Computing, software and power

Honda built a three-dimensional computer processor for ASIMO made of three stacked dies: a processor, a signal converter and memory. The computer that controlled ASIMO's movement sat in its waist, and the robot could be controlled from a PC, a wireless controller or by voice commands. ^[20] Robots Guide lists the final model's software as the VxWorks real-time operating system with custom control software, and its actuators as more than 26 DC motors and brushless DC motors. ^[19]

The original nickel-metal hydride battery took about four hours to charge fully; the 51.8V lithium-ion battery used from 2004 took about three. ^[20] From 2007, ASIMO could walk to a charging station and recharge on its own. ^[21]

What could ASIMO do?

By the final 2011 version, ASIMO could:

• walk at up to 2.7 km/h, run at 9 km/h, run backward, hop on one leg or two, climb and descend stairs, walk on slopes and uneven surfaces, and run in circles; ^{[19][4][18][5]}
• carry a tray, push a cart, open a bottle, pour a drink into a paper cup and use sign language; ^[7][4]
• recognize faces, follow and greet people, respond to a handshake, a wave or a pointing gesture, and turn toward a person who called its name; ^[22]
• pick out the voices of several people talking at once, predict where people were walking and step aside for them; ^[4][21]
• share work with other ASIMOs over a network and recharge itself. ^[21]

Honda summed up what ASIMO achieved as three functions: moving around in the same space as people (including not falling over when bumped by a person), performing tasks with its hands, and interacting with people, including understanding spoken words and adjusting its movement to the estimated intentions of nearby people. ^[10]

Public appearances

ASIMO was demonstrated widely at museums, trade shows, corporate events and on television.

New York Stock Exchange

ASIMO's first public appearance in the United States was on February 14, 2002, when it rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Honda's listing there. ^[23][27] Honda's release added that ASIMO robots were being leased that year to several corporations and museums to greet people at offices and events, and that ASIMO had started working that month as a receptionist for visitors at Honda's Aoyama headquarters. ^[23]

Disneyland

On June 1, 2005, Mickey Mouse welcomed ASIMO to the new Honda ASIMO Theater inside the Innoventions attraction in Disneyland's Tomorrowland, and the show opened to guests on June 2 as part of the park's 50th anniversary celebration. The 15-minute live show, "Say 'Hello' to Honda's ASIMO," had the robot interact with a host in a model home, walking forward and backward, climbing and descending stairs and taking directions. Honda called it the only permanent installation of ASIMO in North America. ^[25] The show continued until the attraction closed in 2015. ^[26]

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

On May 13, 2008, ASIMO conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha to open a concert with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Honda used the appearance to draw attention to the orchestra's youth music programs, alongside a Honda gift of more than $1 million to create The Power of Dreams Music Education Fund. ^[27][28] Honda's engineers programmed the robot to mimic Charles Burke, the orchestra's education director, conducting the piece about six months earlier, so ASIMO could not respond to the musicians; during the first rehearsal the orchestra lost its place when ASIMO began to slow the tempo. A Honda spokeswoman said it was the first time ASIMO had conducted an orchestra and might be the first time any robot had conducted a live performance. Yo-Yo Ma received an award on stage, shook ASIMO's hand and performed later in the program. ^[28]

Meetings with world leaders

On April 24, 2014, ASIMO greeted President Barack Obama at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo, saying in English, "Mr. President, I am ASIMO, a humanoid robot. It is a pleasure to meet you," and then showed some of its signature moves, including running, kicking a ball and jumping. Honda said it was the first time ASIMO had met a U.S. president. ^[30] Obama bowed to the robot and stopped the ball ASIMO kicked to him, and afterward said, "I have to say the robots were a little scary. They were too life-like." ^[32]

During her March 2015 visit to Japan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was introduced to ASIMO at Miraikan, where the robot greeted her in English and demonstrated its soccer skills. ^[31] In October 2008, ASIMO greeted Prince Charles during his visit to Miraikan with a seven-minute step and dance routine. ^[20]

The 2006 fall

In 2006, during an appearance in Japan, ASIMO fell down a flight of stairs; stagehands quickly put up a screen around the robot. ^[33] Engadget, reporting the fall on December 11, 2006, described the robot falling backward after turning its head. ^[34] Audience members filmed ASIMO malfunctioning and falling down stairs at public demonstrations on more than one occasion. ^[20]

Production and deployment

The Computer History Museum says about 100 ASIMOs were built. ^[6] Twenty units of the first model were produced in 2002. ^[20] Honda offered the robot through rental and leasing: the November 2001 model was built for a rental business in Japan, the December 2002 model was to be rented to public institutions and companies from January 2003, ASIMOs were leased to corporations and museums in 2002, and the 2005 model was to be made available for leasing. ^{[5][22][23][18]} Honda also used ASIMO as a receptionist at its own offices, including its Aoyama headquarters from February 2002. ^[23]

Retirement

On June 27, 2018, NHK reported that Honda had decided to stop further development of ASIMO. A Honda representative told AFP, "We will still continue research into humanoid robots, but our future robots may not be named Asimo." ^[8] In a statement on its U.S. ASIMO website, Honda said it continued its research into humanoid robots, that technologies from ASIMO were being adopted in its mass-production products, and that ASIMO demonstrations were still held regularly at Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama in Tokyo, the Honda Collection Hall at Twin Ring Motegi in Tochigi, and Miraikan. ^[35] IEEE Spectrum noted that Honda was still presenting ASIMO software research at conferences as late as 2017, and that from 2018 the company shifted its development effort to E2-DR, a more rugged, ASIMO-inspired disaster-response robot. ^[36]

ASIMO kept performing regular shows at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. On March 31, 2022, it held its farewell show, running from one side of the stage to the other and dancing, and then walked backward off the stage. ^[9] IEEE Spectrum wrote that the robot had been performing at Honda's Tokyo showroom for 20 years. ^[36]

Honda later wrote that ASIMO had given demonstrations daily for more than 20 years and that all units together took more than 33.26 million steps and walked 7,907 km (4,913 miles). ^[10] It said the long operation taught it that robots working among people require much more attention to safety ("What if there were children at the spot where our robot fell over?"), and that after more than 25 years of bipedal humanoid research a fully autonomous bipedal robot for everyday environments would still need long-term research and development, social consensus and new laws. Honda has since also researched non-bipedal mobility, such as a guide robot that moved on balls and wheels in a verification test at Narita International Airport. ^[10]

Legacy

Recognition

The Carnegie Mellon Robot Hall of Fame inducted ASIMO in 2004, alongside the real robot Shakey and the fictional Astro Boy, C-3PO and Robby the Robot. Carnegie Mellon said ASIMO drew juror support as one of the most successful humanoid robots ever created. Hall of Fame founder James H. Morris backed it because "it was the first to demonstrate real human-like walking along with vision," and juror Takeo Kanade, a Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science and robotics, said, "When we look back, the Honda P2 Robot, from which ASIMO was developed, is THE one which ignited the current fever of humanoid and entertainment robots." ^[24] In April 2026, P2 was named an IEEE Milestone. ^[16]

Writing at ASIMO's retirement in 2022, IEEE Spectrum's robotics editor said the decade-old robot still performed things that were "absolutely not easy for humanoid robots even now," and that other humanoids had only within the last few years been able to match and then significantly surpass its performance. ^[36] In 2018 the same publication had noted that humanoid robots from Boston Dynamics and others were demonstrating capabilities ASIMO could not match. ^[8] Later bipedal humanoids include Boston Dynamics' Atlas, Tesla's Optimus, Agility Robotics' Digit, Unitree's H1 and robots from Figure AI; see the history of humanoid robots for the wider context.

Technology spin-offs

Honda has listed several products that applied bipedal walking and balance control technology from ASIMO research: a walking assist device with a stride management system for people with weakened leg muscles, a bodyweight support assist system, and the U3-X one-wheeled personal mobility device. ^[4] In July 2015, Honda announced lease sales of the Honda Walking Assist Device, a rehabilitation aid that drew on the theory of human walking from ASIMO research, to hospitals and rehabilitation facilities in Japan from November 2015, at 45,000 yen per month on a 36-month lease. ^[37]

After ASIMO

Avatar robots

On September 30, 2021, Honda announced that it would develop an avatar robot to let people act remotely "without the constraints of time and place." The Honda Avatar Robot was to have a multi-fingered hand drawing on Honda's robotics technology and an AI-supported remote control function, and Honda aimed to put it into practical use in the 2030s. ^[38] Honda says the avatar robot's hand is being developed by engineers who previously developed ASIMO, using know-how from that work, and that unlike the grippers on many other companies' avatar robots it uses multiple fingers so that it can follow the movements of a human hand. The robot can switch between remote control and AI-supported autonomy. ^[16] Honda's robotics team has described remote work, emergency lifesaving and work on the lunar surface as envisioned uses. ^[16] Honda describes this work as carrying forward what it studied with ASIMO, including human-robot interaction and the use of robotic hands. ^[16]

ASIMO OS

At CES 2025 in January 2025, Honda debuted ASIMO OS, its in-house vehicle operating system for the Honda 0 Series of electric vehicles. ASIMO OS was to provide integrated management of the electronic control units for automated driving and advanced driver assistance systems and the in-vehicle infotainment system, with over-the-air software updates. Honda said the name "pays homage to the beloved Honda ASIMO robot," and planned to install ASIMO OS in all 0 Series models, including production versions of the Honda 0 SUV (due in North America in the first half of 2026) and Honda 0 Saloon (late 2026), both to be built at its EV hub in Ohio. ^[39]

Those cars were not launched. On March 12, 2026, Honda announced that it had cancelled the development and market launch of three EV models planned for production in the U.S., the Honda 0 SUV, the Honda 0 Saloon and the Acura RSX, and said it expected total losses of up to 2.5 trillion yen while strengthening its hybrid models. ^[40] The announcement did not mention ASIMO OS by name or say what would become of the operating system.

Technical specifications (final 2011 model)

Table sources: ^{[12][3][19][20][4]}

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27. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4Honda's ASIMO Robot to Conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Honda News)
28. ^1 ^2 ^3Robot Conductor Leads Detroit Symphony (Associated Press via CBS News, May 14, 2008)
29. ^1 ^2QI: Series I, Episode 13 - Intelligence (British Comedy Guide)
30. ^1 ^2ASIMO Greets U.S. President Obama (Honda Global Newsroom, April 24, 2014)
31. ^1 ^2German Leader Makes Friends With Robot In Japan (Ideastream, March 13, 2015)
32. ^Obama after playing soccer with Honda's ASIMO robot: 'Too life-like' (The Washington Post, April 24, 2014)
33. ^7 Times Honda's ASIMO Bot Showed Off Its Skills, and Once When It Didn't (Digital Trends, July 5, 2018)
34. ^Honda Asimo takes a nasty fall (Engadget, December 11, 2006)
35. ^Honda's Robotics Research Efforts (American Honda ASIMO website, archived January 29, 2020)
36. ^1 ^2 ^3Even as It Retires, ASIMO Still Manages to Impress (IEEE Spectrum, April 21, 2022)
37. ^Honda to Begin Lease Sales of Honda Walking Assist Device in Japan (Honda News, July 21, 2015)
38. ^Honda Introduces Initiatives in New Areas (Honda Global Newsroom, September 30, 2021)
39. ^Honda 0 Saloon and Honda 0 SUV Prototypes Make Global Debut at CES; Honda Announces New ASIMO Operating System (Honda News, January 2025)
40. ^Honda Announces Losses Associated with Reassessment of Automobile Electrification Strategy; Revision to Forecast for Consolidated Financial Results; and Future Direction (Honda Global Newsroom, March 12, 2026)
41. ^幻の ASIMO 開発機「P4」を展示！ (Response.jp, March 23, 2010, in Japanese)

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