ASIMO is a humanoid robot developed by Honda, introduced in 2000 after 15 years of research, and named after Isaac Asimov. It possesses advanced capabilities in facial and gesture recognition, obstacle avoidance, and voice command operation, with 57 degrees of movement freedom. Equipped with various sensors and processors, ASIMO can connect to the internet and perform tasks while maintaining balance and adapting to its surroundings.

1. ASIMO
Advance Machine Learning
Jacobs University, Bremen
Presented By: Dev Bahadur Poudel

2. What is ASIMO?
• Name of Humanoid Robot
• ASIMO : Advance Step in Innovative Mobility
• Japanese Corporation: Honda Motor
Company. Ltd(Masato Hirose)
• Name after Issac Asimov (Three Laws of
Robotics)
• Disclose in 2000 after 15 years of Research
• State of the art in field of Humanoid Robot
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4. Intelligence of ASIMO
• Recognition : face, gesture, sound, moving and
stationary obstacles
• Recognize person from face and name
• Address People by their name
• Performs task according gesture of human being
• Recognize sound of human, can be operated by
voice command
• Avoid Obstacles while moving
• Connect to Internet for Information(answer
people about weather, news)
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5. Recognition
• Follow movement of people
• Greet a person when he/she approaches
• Recognize the indicated location shown by
human and move to that location
• Handshake and hand wave
• Recognize when it is called and turn to person
calling it
• Avoids human obstacles when suddenly appears
in path
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7. Degrees of Movement
Latest ASIMO has 57 degrees of freedom
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8. Operation
• Has its own advance processors
• Controlled by laptop, wireless controller, voice
• Nickel Zinc Battery for power
• Cameras, gyro-sensors, force sensors in each
joints, speed sensor, microphones
• Infrared sensors, Range finder
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9. Design Policy
• Compliance Control
Landing impact absorbed by rubber in foot
• Posture Balance
Floor Reaction Control and Zero Moment
Point Control Mechanism
• Movement
i-Walk Technology, predictive movement
planning. Can adjust trajectory to balance the
posture
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10. Intelligence Techniques
• Vision System for human tracking, facial
recognition, gesture recognition
• Gets pixels of images
Algorithms: 2D gesture recognition Bayes
statistical model(hand swing, farewell)
Face Recognition by eigen vector Method
Obstacle Detection: Makes local map using
vision. Range finder detects obstacles
reconstruct the map
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12. References
[1] ASIMO http://asimo.honda.com/downloads/pdf/honda-asimo-robot-fact-
sheet.pdf. Technical report.
[2] ASIMO Technical Information 2007
http://asimo.honda.com/downloads/pdf/asimo-technical-
information.pdf. Technical report.
[3] K. Hirai, M. Hirose, Y. Haikawa, and T. Takenaka. The development of
honda humanoid robot. In
Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International
Conference on, volume 2,
pages 1321–1326 vol.2, 1998. ID: 1.
[4] Y. Sakagami, R. Watanabe, C. Aoyama, S. Matsunaga, N. Higaki, and K.
Fujimura. The intelli-
gent asimo: system overview and integration. In Intelligent Robots and
Systems, 2002. IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on, volume 3, pages 2478–2483 vol.3, 2002. ID: 1.
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13. Thank you!
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