A humanoid robot that throws a spinning kick and catches its own balance now starts at 4,900 dollars. Honda's ASIMO, which conducted a live orchestra, stood about the same height, ran the same one-hour battery, and cost about 2.5 million. You could never buy one.Here is how those moves actually get made. ASIMO was a puppet. Engineers hand-scripted almost every joint angle, and one two-minute orchestra routine took them about six months. It was mostly run by remote control, and if it tipped over,

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