R&D: Aim high

When planning a venture into robotics, it's advisable to gain a level to aspire to. I may appear to be punching above my weight here but I figure that Honda is leagues ahead of any other company in the world for small scale robotics so if my benchmark exceeds the robotic know-how of say NASA, 1/2th the final success is admirable.

Taking a closer look at Asimo in this footage, he appears to be made of some sort of cardboard with a young man inside. Enlarging and enhancing the video leaks the secret that he is held together with paper fasteners made of a cheap brass substitute. Such an insight into the creation of Asimo is going to cut out on those awkward decades of research and development, which quite frankly I don't have.