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The Honda ASIMO robot is more than a novelty project. In fact, it could dramatically change the way we drive.

Honda will reveal the latest version of its ASIMO robot on April 15.

While Honda is most well known in the world for its automobiles, the company’s portfolio expands well beyond just vehicles. The ASIMO robot has evolved over the years, becoming a noticeable icon for the brand, and Honda is now using some of its technology to aid seniors whose walking ability has declined.

Recently AutoGuide had the chance to visit the Honda Collection Hall at the company’s Motegi race track facility. The museum holds more than just motorcycles and cars, however, with an entire section dedicate to the brand’s humanoid robot.

Honda has just unveiled the latest version of its ASIMO humanoid robot, with impressive updates that allow the machine to operate autonomously, walk on uneven surfaces and perform more human functions.

It sounds like the plot to a bad science fiction movie. ASIMO, Honda‘s humanoid robot, is sent into the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plan in Japan to help out where human’s can’t, only to be transformed by Plutonium into a killing machine.