Robotics 30 Years After Honda's P2 Was the First Robot to Walk Without Falling, IEEE Finally Crowned It a Milestone — the Same Week One Western Company Shipped 240 Humanoids in a Single Month
On April 28 at Honda's Wako Building, IEEE dedicated its formal Milestone plaque to the 1996 Honda P2 — the first self-contained autonomous bipedal humanoid. Only ~293 IEEE Milestones exist worldwide. The plaque arrived 30 years late, and exactly the week the field stopped being about whether robots could walk and started being about whether the customer could install them.