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130cms tall and weighs 54kgs. It resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h. ASIMO was created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan. The ASIMO Project has been going on since 1986 with the first being E0 (experimental model 0).Officially, the name, A.S.I.M.O is an acronym for “Advanced Step in
Innovative MObility”, and isn’t actually a reference to Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics. As of 2007, there are 46 ASIMO units in existence. Each one costs less than $1 million to manufacture, and some units are available to be hired out for $166,000 per year.The ASIMO is fitted with the latest recognition software and perform many complex tasks such as Recognition of moving objects, Recognition of postures and gestures, Environment recognition, Distinguishing sounds, and Facial recognition.
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