Sony's New Bi-Pedal Robot

TestBoy writes "Sony is releasing a new bipedal robot for home use. It has a 60,000 word vocabulary and can even sing songs." I am especially amused by the photograph of synchronized dancing robots, and the fact that the new bot will cost as much as a luxury car! But it has some impressive stuff like facial recognition

Here's the new Honda w/ Link

[SerialHistorian]

Ok, Here's the link to the new Honda Asimo [honda.co.jp] -- THe page is in Japanese, but the photos are good.

Technical info

[LinuxTek]

In this [smartmoney.com] article there's some extra technical information, like the fact that it has 2 64-bit RISC processors and runs the Apertos [sony.co.jp] Operating System (now called Aperios).

Link to video

[Dr. Spork]

This was a part from the German ARD afternoon news [tagesschau.de]. The video speaks for itself, even if you don't understand the German commentary.