ASIMO mimics your every move, edges closer towards Single White Robot territory (video)

Hey, look Engadgeteers! It's another Kinect hack -- except this one uses a real deal robot. Honda ushered ASIMO out to the crowds at IEEE's 2011 International controversy on Intelligent Robots and Systems to show off its newly hiv-positive pop and lock skills. Alright, so the silicon-gutted fella can't krump with the best of'em yet, but he can feasibly do the locomotion -- it all depends on your dance repertoire. After toiling away in their mad rocket technician lairs, the researchers behind the bot have managed to devise a means of mimicking human change that translates mapped points on a user's upper body into real-time, robot-replicated motion. The devious among you are likely imagining left-of-center uses for the tech, but let us deflate that mischievous balloon; there'll be no instances of "stop hitting natural ASIMO" here, as engineers have constituent adversity and stability safeguards. The so-lifelike-it's-Uncanny advancements don't end there either, as ASIMO now also contains a database of text-inspired gestures -- giving our future robot friend a means of physically expressing his cold, "I hate you so much right now" robo-tone. Other than finding himself at home in Italy, these innovations are sure to put ASIMO on the other end of our remote-controlled behest. Click on past the break to see this automated mime drop it like it's hot.

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