{"id":933,"date":"2011-11-08T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=933"},"modified":"2011-11-08T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:25:14","slug":"new-asimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"New ASIMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asimo.honda.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-934\" title=\"ASIMO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ASIMO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/world.honda.com\/news\/2011\/c111108All-new-ASIMO\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Honda ann0unced<\/a> an all-new <a href=\"http:\/\/asimo.honda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ASIMO<\/a> robot &#8211; faster, lighter, and able to operate more autonomously than previous models (yet managing to preserve the same fascinating\/creepy feel).<\/p>\n<p>But what I find even more interesting, buried down near the bottom of the press release, there is a mention of the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/world.honda.com\/U3-X\/\" target=\"_blank\">U3-X<\/a>, a compact one-wheel-drive mobility device. According to its creator, Shinichiro Kobashi:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all started with a single sketch. It was a picture I drew during a brainstorming session on vehicles of the future. I wondered if it would be possible to create a vehicle with a form like this that could move freely in all directions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsort of like a witch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s broom or a magic wand. I thought it would make an interesting project,&#8221; he laughs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world.honda.com\/U3-X\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-946\" title=\"U3-X\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any other device that actually makes riding a Segway look cool. \u00c2\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/world.honda.com\/U3-X\/\" target=\"_blank\">U3-X website<\/a> has some interesting images and videos &#8211; I especially like the one of researches in lab coats having a meeting while riding their U3-X&#8217;s, and the women riding them through a museum exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>I do think a device like that has its place, but some of the examples Honda shows are pretty hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honda ann0unced an all-new ASIMO robot &#8211; faster, lighter, and able to operate more autonomously than previous models (yet managing to preserve the same fascinating\/creepy feel). But what I find even more interesting, buried down near the bottom of the press release, there is a mention of the\u00c2\u00a0U3-X, a compact one-wheel-drive mobility device. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}