Wheelchair or walking-chair? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwem5yFiXyM&NR=1 At 2 min 30 seconds, computer is dribbling tennis ball in slow motion. Then they show another robot hitting a baseball with a bat. The man is saying in Japanese that you should watch the camera 'eye' which is following the baseball by moving quite quickly. This is using feedback and a trained artificial cerebellum.
When will the first human receive a brain transplant to make her a superior sports player?
New functionality added to Asimo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18wSJs6LIc0 At this point Asimo can recognize new objects and towards the end of the video, he distinguishes between a chair and table as more general objects. More objects would be needed before we are convinced that it is grasping simple concepts. Its IQ may be 0.1% of that of a human which would mean that it needs 10 years to 'catch up' to human intelligence.