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Asimo’s method of walking involve balancing momentum and taking inertia,
acceleration, and “rebounding” from the floor into account.

with cables and carried all of its computing power on board. This
rather hulking robot porter was 72 inches (1.82 m) tall and weighed
a hefty 460 pounds (209 kg). P2 demonstrated the potential utility of
walking robots for performing useful tasks, but it was rather clumsy
and sometimes stumbled and came to a halt. Because of this, Honda
released videos to the media, but did not present live demonstrations.
In 1997, Honda showed the smaller, more agile P3.