Honda Upgrades ASIMO

"ASIMO, Honda's feisty little humanoid robot, is getting an upgrade.
Honda Motor Co. announced yesterday the latest technological tweaks aimed at making the machine more nimble and better suited to interacting with people.

ASIMO serves as a sort of Apollo mission for Honda, a long running research project that's slowly rooting out all the technical issues of delivering a truly humanoid autonomous robot to market.

Posture Control, Autonomous Continuous Movement and 'enhanced visual and force sensor technologies' lead the list of improvements. ASIMO has also grown a bit, with an extra 10cm in height and 2kg in weight ASIMO also has a much longer battery life: 1 hour, up from the 30 minutes of the previous model. "

From extremetech.com