Now, he's back—in a manner of speaking. At CES 2025, Honda announced that its first in-house software system for its upcoming 0 Series electric vehicles will be called Asimo OS.

"It's literally going to feel like a sci-fi movie," Figure AI founder Brett Adcock says.

Pepper was one of the world’s first robots that could recognize faces and emotions. ... Honda spent over a decade building ASIMO, a humanoid robot that could someday help us around the house.

If those names sound familiar it's because RSX is a Honda nameplate from the early 2000s, and Asimo was a Honda project to build humanoid robots from the area, which was finally mothballed in 2018 ...

The Japanese industrial giant has been experimenting with a humanoid-type robot since the mid-80s, when it revealed the Honda P Series of swiftly iterating bidepal robots. These were followed by the P ...

Hartmann said they took inspiration from Honda's ASIMO, a humanoid robot first introduced in 2000. ASIMO could walk, run, climb stairs, recognize faces and voices, and perform simple tasks like ...

Honda Asimo OS: A Robot Legend Is Reborn ... but Honda was actually experimenting with humanoid robots as far back as ... Honda announced that its first in-house software system for its upcoming 0 ...