Many of you may already know that the ASIMO is buzz word for
GenX. And it is all about an artificial Thing [Embedded with virtual life], resembling
the most valued creation of God [The Human], programmed to perfection.
Just to bring some enthusiasm in you I have kept a small
mind game at the end of this write up, which you will be able to appreciate if
and only if you read the complete article...
Before I go any further I would like to throw little more
lights on the term ASIMO for the interest of ones who are not very fancy about the
day to day buzz that is going around and others who wanted an inline refresh of
their memories about ASIMO.
ASIMO is a humanoid
robot created by Honda. IT resembles child
in size and is the most human-like robot HONDA has made so far. The robot has 7
DOF (Degrees of freedom) in
each arm — two joints of 3 DOF, shoulder and wrist, giving "Six degrees of freedom“[Just enough to
serve their living counter part]
The whole idea [at least that is what I perceive] was to have
an entity which can serve human and one need not to think about morality and
all. And who on the earth do not want to get served without any return
commitment.
By now you might be wondering why the hec we are roaming
around the ASIMO thing. So here we go, the point that I wanted make is! Like
all great ideas which evolved are from the things we see around us this is no
different. You may wonder, how this one? I wondered too but have you ever
noticed any person more or less like you, I mean having 2 legs, 2 hands, one
head and what not, taking some [do not get fooled by the word “some” here]
extra care of someone which is undue. But mind at times you may have felt, like
most does, that it would not have been bad if you were the one getting such treatment.
Anyway here we are interested in the traits of the Human like thing who is actually
providing the special treatment. These
traits we call as ASIMOcity and can be the idea behind ASIMO...
You can find living ASIMOs every where but the difference
would be that few of them can be identified very easily as the traits are so
profound in them that it glitters [again no literal meaning please!] but at times
spotting one may be challenging. The whole disparity is there because there are
different degrees of ASIMOcity.
Living ASIMOs have different ways for pleasing their Targets.
It could be as shuttle as a bald man walks to his manager and says you are greatest
without any reason on the world. Or can be as act full as Carl’s activities.
For clarity I may like to narrate one real life incident. We were a group of IT
folks so called Computer Engineers [At least our parent says so ] along with
some of our managers, we use to play football ones every week. Now as in all
groups there will be few greats who live life Differently Carl is like one of
them. One day we invited him to the ground and he came with his camera sorry!! DSLR
I am taking little pause from the incident here to explain
little bit about Carl. He is a kind of person who can turn mood around and none
of our get together ever commenced or ended without his prime intervention. In
the huge list of talents that he poses photography is one... [Though many
people has different opinion but you better stick to me here]
Coming back to the incident! He came to the ground after
some initial welcome and all we started playing our Game. And as an opportunist
photographer he tried making use of his one of the rare visits to sports grounds
and immensely beautiful surrounding [We are talking about Switzerland here], He
started clicking...
But at the end when we asked him to show the pictures after
a little hesitation he showed and seeing them we wonder whether we were also
playing on the ground because all the pictures were clicked focusing on one Player.
Yes you are correct and the player happens to be the manager of Carl. He is the
target of Carls ASIMOcity.
One can never imitate his ASIMOcity demonstrated specially
while hosting a party. Carls makes all arrangement absolutely perfect right
from Lighting cigarette, serving drinks or arranging for the dinner. One needs
to qualify to enjoy the privilege from Carl. Yes you guessed right...One needs
to be Manager for Carl. But not only Manager if you lucky enough to be a
relative of Carl you can also enjoy the warmth.
The Degree of ASIMOcity that I have seen in recent times I
think can be rated as of highest degree above is one of them but mind you ASIMO
acts does not always pleases the target and this happens when a person with Injected
or acquired ASIMOcity tries to show his ASIMOcity.
The main difference between living ASIMO and Honda one is,
living ones chooses whom they are going to serve. Most of the time the choices
are Obvious as there are strong ground rules which governs the target
selection. But be ready for surprises!!!
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ASIMO GAME
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Now that you have read the whole article [Which is another
feather in my CAP :))] I will request you to race your thinking horses a little
and scramble down three names from this huge world that you know about in order
of their ASIMOcity. Off course descending...
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And if you want to make it little more interesting you can
share among the friends to see how alike you think about the people you know in
common. Please be aware of not sharing this with ones whose name you have
listed above... I am sure you will not but if you decide to do it will be
solely your RISK :))
And please do not feel heart if you come to know that
someone has listed you as one of three names.
The accomplishment for you is that there is an ASIMO in everyone so
what wrong if you are on TOP everyone likes that spot, so enjoy!!
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