P3

Honda · Japan · unveiled in 1997

discontinued

A smaller and lighter successor to P2, completed in September 1997 as a fully independent bipedal humanoid. Thanks to different materials and distributed control, it came close to a size suitable for human environments and led to the ASIMO robot.

Applications

• research and education [1] [2]

Data

Data on P3

height	1,6 m (according to the manufacturer) [1]
weight	130 kg (according to the manufacturer) [1]

Sources

• Honda – History of robotics development
• Wikipedie – Honda P series

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• 1997 – Completion of the Honda P3

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