Asimo: The future in robotics
                             Blog Post#1: Introduction


In 1986, Honda engineers set out to create a walking robot. In its early days models such as the E1, E2, and E3 focused on developing legs that could simulate the walk of a human. The next series of models E4, E5, and E6 were focused on walk stabilization and stair climbing. Next, a head, body and arms were added to the robot to improve balance and add functionality. Honda’s first humanoid robot, P1 was rather rugged at 6’ 2” tall, and 386 lbs. P2 improved with a more friendly design, improved walking, stair climbing/descending, and wireless automatic movements. The P3 model was even more compact, standing 5’ 2” tall and weighing 287 lbs.

Above we see an example of Honda's first walking robot the E1, although its not exactly a pleasure visually, it most certainly was a breakthrough in the robotics industry. Looking back on this in the year 2013 it seems like nothing to the average Joe but to an engineer this is the darling baby in what was to become a feat in engineering present day in what we now all know as ASIMO!

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Blog Post#1
Donal Murphy.