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• Honda: ASIMO
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Sources

• ASIMO
  http://asimo.honda.com
• "ASIMO in Prague." Robotika.cz, August 26, 2003.
  http://robotika.cz/articles/asimo/en
• ASIMO Technical Manual: Honda Motor Company
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• D'Aluisio, Faith and Peter Menzel. "Evolution of a New Species: Robo Sapiens." MIT Press, 2000.
• "Hospital porters go robotic." Engadget, June 24, 2004.
  http://robots.engadget.com
• Kageyma, Yuri. "Honda devises way for brain signals to control robot." USA Today, May 24, 2006
  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/ 2006-05-24-robot-brain_x.htm
• MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  http://www.ai.mit.edu
• NASA: Robotics Education Project
  http://robotics.nasa.gov
• "The New Age of Service Robots: From Fighting Fires to Serving Beer." Knowledge at Wharton, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, November 20, 2002.
• Patent # 6016962: IC Communication Cards. United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  http://www.uspto.gov
• Robot Hall of Fame
  http://www.robothalloffame.org
• Robotics Online
  http://www.roboticsonline.com
• Schulte, Bret. "ASIMO: Honda's New Compact Comes in Peace: It's Not Man's Best Friend, But It's No Terminator Either." Washington Post, August 3, 2002.
• The Tech Museum of Innovation
  http://www.thetech.org/robotics
• TrueForce: History Timeline of Robotics
  http://trueforce.com/Articles/Robot_History.htm
• "Understanding Computers: Robotics." Time-Life Books, 1986.