Obama was introduced to two robots. One of them, Honda's humanoid robot, Asimo is about the height of a 10 year old child and was wearing an astronaut suit.
"It's nice to meet you," the robot said in a metallic voice to Obama. The robot performed a series of exercises and then walked to a soccer ball and told the President "I can kick a soccer ball too."
"Okay, come on," Obama replied.
The robot then kicked to ball to the President, who trapped it with his feet.
"That was pretty impressive," remarked Obama.
Following the demonstration, the President told an audience of some 30 students that "We saw some truly amazing robots - although I have to say the robots were a little scary. They were too lifelike. They were amazing. And these students showed me some of their experiments, including some soccer-playing robots that we just saw."
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