President Obama is in Japan on a state visit right now, and he’s been making some high-tech new friends. Honda’s humanoid robot Asimo was on hand at Tokyo’s Miraikan science museum — previously host to the colossal Kuratas mech — to demonstrate its soccer abilities. After offering a bow and exchanging a few words with Asimo, Obama said its ball skills were “pretty impressive,” according to The Wall Street Journal. But the robot might have done its job too well; Obama later told students that “the robots were a little scary. They were too lifelike.”
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