Thursday, August 21, 2003
ASIMO as diplomat?
ASIMO, Honda's revolutionary new humanoid robot is going where, errmmm, no robot has gone before. According to the BBC, ASIMO will join Junichuro Koizumi and Vladimir Spidla, the prime ministers of Japan and the Czech Republic for dinner at a state reception in Prague.
Japanese leader Junichiro Koizumi decided to bring the robot - made by the Japanese company Honda - as a tribute to the Czech writer Karel Capek. Capek invented the word "robot" in his 1921 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots), when he introduced the concept of human-like creations capable of doing dull repetitive tasks. Robot comes from the Czech word robota, which means drudgery.
More on "RUR" can be found here or you can buy it.
Japanese leader Junichiro Koizumi decided to bring the robot - made by the Japanese company Honda - as a tribute to the Czech writer Karel Capek. Capek invented the word "robot" in his 1921 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots), when he introduced the concept of human-like creations capable of doing dull repetitive tasks. Robot comes from the Czech word robota, which means drudgery.
More on "RUR" can be found here or you can buy it.
