Honda removed from the ASIMO service, his famous humanoid robot, and focuses on avatar robots. A choice made in a Japan always at the forefront of robotics, industrial as a domestic, despite Chinese or South Korean competition.
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Asimo retired. The very popular humanoid robot imagined and designed, in 2000, by Honda ended, Thursday, March 31, at twenty years of public interventions in Miraikan. The National Museum of Emerging Sciences and Innovation, in Tokyo, offered a final track tower after a moving ceremony. “I have a lot of good memories with many people,” said Asimo, after receiving a letter of thanks and the flowers of the Museum Director, Chieko Asakawa. “He demonstrated the possibility for robots and humans to live together,” says Rikuko Nagashima, researcher specializing in the theories of communication.
Project launched in 1986, Asimo, Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility contraction, with the dog Aibo of Sony, as a symbol of Japan’s progress in robotics. Honda has continued to improve capacity, including movement. He could run or jump to bell-foot.
The car manufacturer ended the adventure, after presenting its new project, an avatar robot, at the IREX 2022, the large robotics show, organized from March 9th to 12th in Tokyo. This real “second self” must allow “living experiments at a distance. The avatars robots represent a real” 4D mobility “” because they can “play time and space”, details Takahide Yoshiike, engineer at Honda . The ambition group to market these robots in the 2030s for use in remote work, emergency medical intervention or spatial exploration. In this area, it will compete with Toyota, designer, in 2017, T-HR3. This robot must eventually work on assembly chains.
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These advances confirm the preponderance of Japan in robotics – an expected market of 339 billion yen (2.5 billion euros) in 2027, compared with 139 billion yen in 2021. and this, despite the growing competition of South Korean or Chinese industrialists and the shock caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which had forced Japan to use foreign manufacturers to get robots capable of intervening in the distasteed plant in 2011.
In terms of robotics, the archipelago started, as early as the 1970s, by the industrial field. “The Nippon market for industrial robots is today the second in the world, after China,” says Milton Guerry, president of the International Robotics Federation. Nippons giants in the sector, such as Fanuc and Yaskawa, provide 45% of the global demand. And 78% of their production was exported, in 2020, mainly to the United States and China.
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