Having five previous films, Honda seems to know what it is doing. Honda autos will debut their new short film entitled “Living With Robots” on January 22, 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival. Furthermore, the film will be supported by a live demonstration of ASIMO, the humanoid robot representing Honda. The film itself puts thoughts into your head about how life would be if you had to interact with robots in everyday tasks. For example, you encounter a robot when you need to ship a package or when you’re at the local food store and the robot is bagging your food for you. In the movie, the perspectives of different people interested in the study of robots and its future are shown. Those people range from science-fiction writers to hardcore engineers and philosophers. Now, hopefully this movie will stand up to the reputation of Honda’s other documentaries. Check out Honda’s other movies from the “Dream the Impossible” series here, on Honda’s Dedicated Website.

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Wakamaru, that cute little jack of all trades bot can add yet another thing to his list of accomplishments. The yellow robot is being prepared for participation in the dramatic Osaka Tenjin Festival, an enormous 1000-year-old event that runs through the streets and rivers of Osaka each July. Wakamaru is a high-tech android designed for domestic and office work by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and if you’ve been following along, you’ll know he’s a busy robot who has taken on acting, been controlled by a controller suit and he has even blogged.

For this engagement he will be dressed up in a fancy costume and the engineers are teaching the robot how to perform the Osaka-jime, the festival’s customary call and clap. Wakamaru, who will play cheerleader during the festival’s boat parade on the Okawa River on July 25 and will act as a modern-day omukae ningyo (”greeting doll”).

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