News from Ian Hamet's part of the world: Asimo, the robot at Honda, can run, at approximately 3km/hour.
I noticed an odd reaction as I watched this video. The robot actually seemed to me to be hesitating, to be slightly unsure of himself (not of "itself," but of "himself"), to be...to be trying to run, to do well.
Normally, of course, I try to avoid that sort of anthropomorphizing of robots and computers. I know they hate that.
(Hat tip: Mises Blog)
Posted by Craig Ceely at December 26, 2004 04:57 PM