ASIMO
Honda·Japan·2000·Bipedal walking
Countries Collection
Japanese Robotics
Precision, culture, and a century of mechanical imagination.
4 robots·11 min read·Countries
Featured robots
Ranked entries in this collection.
ASIMO Pepper 
Pepper
Aldebaran Robotics·France·2014·Facial expression analysis
Aibo 
Aibo
86Sony·Japan·1999·Vision
NAO 
NAO
Aldebaran Robotics·France·2008·Bipedal locomotion
Japan treated robots as both industry and culture long before “embodied AI” was a phrase.
This collection walks the line between factory floors and living rooms.
“In Japan, robots were neighbors before they were products.”
4Robots
2Companies
4Technologies
3Countries
Key insights
Dual tradition
Industrial excellence and cultural robotics evolved in parallel.
Timeline
- 1969
Industrial rise
Japanese factories scale robotic arms worldwide.
- 1999
Aibo arrives
Consumer robotics becomes emotionally legible.
- 2000
ASIMO landmark
A biped becomes a national and global icon.
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