The Acura RSX calls dibs on Honda’s proprietary Asimo OS

Honda has introduced that its first authentic EV design, the Acura RSX, will use its proprietary Asimo working system, in response to The Verge. If those names sound familiar it’s because RSX is a Honda nameplate from the early 2000s, and Asimo was a Honda venture to construct humanoid robots from the realm, which was lastly mothballed in 2018. The whole lot previous is new once more.

Asimo OS was talked about at CES 2025 alongside its 0 Sequence SUV and Saloon sedan EV ideas, however the Acura RSX would be the first manufacturing automobile to get it. The working system makes use of know-how much like its namesake robotic to acknowledge exterior environments and perceive individuals’s intentions, according to the company. It should additionally help within the automobile’s automated and superior assisted driving capabilities.

The corporate’s present EVs — the Acura ZDX and the Honda Prologue — are each based mostly on the Normal Motors Ultium platform. Manufacturing of the Acura RSX will happen in Honda’s new Fayette County, Ohio manufacturing unit. The final beams of the plant have been solely erected rather less than a yr in the past, and it is projected to have battery and RSX manufacturing up and working by the top of this yr. Customers ought to be capable of get their palms on the brand new automobile someday in 2026.

Whereas Honda is working laborious on its EVs, its plans to merge with Nissan, introduced on the finish of final yr, proceed. The 2 corporations have been collaborating on making EV elements and software program since August.