At present, P3 can, without exaggeration, be considered the highest-performing bipedal robot in the world.
	Its kinematic abilities are already highly developed and mostly function autonomously.
This success in the area of kinematics allows one to look towards the great challenges of the future with optimism: The energy supply must be optimised in order to enable longer actvity.
	Tele-senses such as hearing...
... and seeing must be implemented in combination with cognitive abilities for object recognition in order to one day enable P3 to act autonomously in an unfamiliar environment.
	And P3 should also be able to articulate itself acoustically if it one day wants to move among human beings.
The next big step in the further development of P3 will be the implementation of visual abilities. We have learned a great deal in this regard from the results of brain research and hope to soon be able to make further progress with the aid of these neuroscientific approaches.
	Vision is an active, intelligent process and we must become aware of the basic architecture of the intelligence we want to give P3 to accompany it on its way through the world.
This venture is a tremendous technical challenge and, not until P3 can move naturally and unobtrusively in the immediate environment of human beings and actively support them, will Honda have achieved its goal.