japanesemaker honda motter released its humanesque model with dextrous fingers. at the news conference on tuesday the new asimo robot demonstrated it can communicate in sign language. with its improved hands, asimo is now smarter and more flexible. asimo's smoother hand movements come from an increase in metals from 2 to 13. now the robot can even twist open a bottled top. asimo using sensors to get a more accurate reading of its environment. this allows the humanoid to run faster and move through crowds. >>> children the world over are familiar with skipping rope, but the game is so well established in japan that many schools include it in their physical education classes. last month, an elementary school held a rope jumping event and as we see in this report, the training taught the children more than the importance of how to be good rope jumpers. >> reporter: the students jump through as many times as a rope that seems so fast it seems to blur. in just three minutes. with backs bent, the students, 30 of them, jump fastly during the fast-moving rope. the format