Honda should think about using some 'deploy then code' philosophy with ASIMO. I know ASIMO works hard in theme parks and in the lab, however, ASIMO really needs to be in a movie to reach a large appreciative audience. The things ASIMO can't quite do now could be CGI'd in or there could be some (stunted) stunt doubles dressed in a suit.

From what I understand the target audience is elderly care. I have done a fair bit of this myself on a neighbourly basis and I have witnessed how professional care workers can work - they can fill in lots of forms and somehow avoid any actual care. Imagine how dystopian things could get if elderly people had ASIMO and instead of care workers visiting them they just had an engineer to care for the ASIMO. Then imagine the Alzheimer's disease kicking in. ASIMO could be sent off doing the same thing three thousand times a day, with a feedback loop formed, making matters worse.

Clearly the distant relatives would interface with ASIMO rather than their grandma/grandpa. The senile yet devious grandma/pa would do things to outwit ASIMO like regurgitate their pills or eat the bag of sugar instead of their microwave meal. So situations could develop without relatives knowing what was going on. Obviously at things like family weddings the elderly person would not actually go, instead ASIMO would do the duties including standing in the pictures, front-row due to height reasons. You would also have the problem that we have with cars - most houses have lots of them. So some people could end up with more ASIMO than occupants.

So, I look forward to 'ASIMO the movie', where the basic premise is basic care work - as intentioned - and how it works out in practice, ideas fully worked through on the assumption that the code can be written, e.g. to do things like change bandages. Using this 'deploy then code' we could determine if this 'looking after old folk' scenario is realistic.