Monday, September 19, 2011

ASIMO in life


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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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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