Bipedal humanoid robot (Honda ASIMO)
Robot humanoide bípedo (Honda ASIMO)
- Date
- 2000 · confidence high
- Place
- Honda R&D, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- Credited to
- Honda (project begun in 1986); Boston Dynamics (Atlas, 2013) as a dynamic successor
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A human-shaped robot able to walk, climb stairs and run through dynamic balance control. It demonstrated bipedal locomotion and paved the way for general-purpose humanoids.
What it led to
- Dynamic humanoid robots (Atlas) and factory humanoids (Optimus, Figure, 2024-2025)
- Assistive robotics for the elderly in Japan
- Research into reinforcement learning for locomotion
Built on
- Electric articulated robot arm (Stanford Arm, PUMA)1969-1978
- servomotors
- MEMS inertial sensors
Made possible
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- AI humanoids (Figure, Optimus)
- exoskeletons