Honda’s Asimo robot just hit Sundance and dished out awards at Windsor Castle but it seems the next step in its quest for world domination will be…singing and dancing. A new patent submitted this week plans to allow the Honda Asimo to unlock its inner Fred Astaire…
Honda’s latests Asimo patent was discovered by intellectual property lawyers Stamoulis & Weinblatt and describes a version of the robot that can pick up a beat and dance along as well as recognize a song and sing the lyrics.
The singing, dancing Honda Asimo will include a “sound collecting unit” to listen to sounds and a “voice signal generating unit” that will allow it to sing in a traditional way and do Scatman John-style scat singing.
Honda Asimo’s dancing will apparently be handled with a “beat interval estimating unit” and a “beat time reliability calculating unit”. Let us be the first to welcome our new singing, dancing robot overlord.
Due TBA | £TBA | Honda (via Engadget)
