the future is coming

[threeplusfire]

Asimo, a 1.2-meter (4-foot) tall robot designed by Honda, brings flowers to the bust of Czech author and playwrighter Karel Capek in the hall of the National Museum in Prague, Friday, Aug. 22, 2003. Asimo was brought to Prague by visiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to pay tribute to Capek, who invented the word 'robot' in his 1921 play 'R.U.R.' (Rossum's Universal Robots). (AP Photo/CTK, Michal Dolezal)

Honda's ASIMO project is to my knowledge the most advanced humanoid robot project in the works. Apparently, the robot is more entertaining than the Czech Prime Minister.

There's something really strange and moving in the image of the robot bringing flowers to Capek.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It's just sort of strange, isn't it?

[n-o-m-i-c.livejournal.com]

Definitely. It evoked a complex reaction in me, at first. I was almost offended, but then I read whom it was. It made a perfect, eerie sense after that. Sort of a circle of completion. A very kind gesture, despite all the marketing gimmickry it may have been hatched as.