Honda is retiring its amazing Asimo robot. News of company’s decision to end development of the robot came via local media. But Honda insisted Asimo’s talents will not be wasted, with much of it ...

In the 20th century, it seemed like robots were going to radically change our lives in the near future. Intelligent androids would handle all the daily tasks we didn’t care for, and make our lives ...

Asimo's come a long way in 20 years, and the Japanese automaker doesn't plan to call it quits any time soon. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was drawn to ...

In 2001, I started going to preschool. ASIMO, too, got smarter — he learned to navigate stairs, and Honda announced he'd be available for rent. I dreamed of a world where everyone had an ASIMO around ...

Fans of technology will recall a number of years when Honda’s humanoid robot Asimo seemed to be everywhere. In addition to its day job in a research lab, Asimo had a public relations side gig showing ...

Honda has ceased developed of its humanoid Asimo robot. The Japanese automaker first set to work on Asimo way back in 1986, when it opened a research facility in Japan’s Saitama Prefecture dedicated ...

So long, Asimo. We'll always have the videos. Honda has announced that it's officially retiring the world's most famous non-Star Wars-affiliated bipedal robot. News of the retirement came from Nikkei ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

Honda's humanoid robot Asimo has taken another step on its way to become human-like. Actually, make that superhuman-like. Asimo, which resembles a small astronaut, doesn't only dance, serve coffee and ...

Not a lot of people know this, but Honda was actually experimenting with humanoid robots as far back as the mid-1980s. They were kind of like boxes full of circuitry on legs that became more and more ...

Honda is ceasing development of Asimo, the humanoid robot that has delighted audiences at trade shows for years but never really matured into anything more than that, the Nikkei reports. But while the ...