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Asimo: ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!’

11 Dec 2006

In this video, Asimo shows the danger that androids face when climbing stairs. Go to the :50 second mark to see the robot take a tumble. Ironically, Asimo falls just after explaining how the sensors in its feet allow it to maintain balance.

[Via: HiroIro]

9 responses to: “Asimo: ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!’”

  1. […] […]

  2. […] Whoops, Asimo had a slight accident recently. […]

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  4. […] Quite amazing watching this video of a falling robot how quickly it turns from slightly human to not at all as it bounces in a plasticy manner. […]

  5. […] Quite amazing watching this video of a falling robot how quickly it turns from slightly human to not at all as it bounces in a plasticy manner. […]

  6. I saw this and felt so bad…like a kid fell down some stairs or something. Oh well, if anyone(thing) can rebound from such a fall, I’m sure its ASIMO. ^_^

  7. Yeah, well. He has rebounded, seeing as how this video is over 3 years old.

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  9. […] For a good number of years now, ASIMO has been sort of the top dog among androidian, human-like robots, being one of the first to successfully tackle the whole bipedal walking thing. It was, and still is, a pretty amazing machine, but ASIMO is not infallible as this video from the excellent Pink Tentacle shows: […]

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