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...They got down on their knees and worked out the physics of how dust collects and circulates. Vacuum cleaners consume large amounts of electricity, so they had to invent a new kind of low-power vacuum that would allow Roomba to run on rechargeable batteries. They ran their baby bot over "torture tracks" to test its mobility. They spent a night in a Target store to watch industrial cleaners at work...
...schools. Saddam would have preferred Oprah's Book Club, but this should help sales as well COUNT ALVARO DE MARICHALAR Spanish aristocrat crosses the Atlantic on a jet ski. He will return from the Indies with his craft laden with gold and spices Losers ANNA KOURNIKOVA Tennis fem-bot upset at Wimbledon, then blows her top at a BBC interviewer. Her male fans are surprised to find she plays tennis?who knew? KEN LIVINGSTONE London mayor allegedly pushes tabloid reporter over a wall. Britons are excited?they haven't had a two-fisted politician since Thatcher BERNIE EBBERS Ex-WorldCom...
...remote-controlled guard dog equipped with a digital camera and mobile phone. Sony has taken a slightly different approach. While Honda researchers pursue the holy grail of the film Bicentennial Man?a mechanized butler?Sony's vision is closer to the sci-fi movie A.I., which features a boy-bot that offers unconditional robot lovin'. The company has sold more than 100,000 of its toylike AIBOs since the robo-dog was introduced three years ago, at an average price of $1,500 each. "I see robots in consumers' homes as their personal pals," says Satoshi Amagai, chief of Sony...
...Playing on these yearnings, Sony is now working on the SDR-4X, a gnome-sized humanoid bot that can sing, dance, kick a ball?and chat. The company plans to equip the device with a 60,000-word vocabulary and the ability to recognize 10 human faces and voices. The SDR-4X could hit the market as early as next year, but it will cost a good chunk of an annual salary. Sony doesn't expect to sell many. The SDR-4X "is a symbolic product," Amagai concedes...
...that caramel color and shine it up a bit, give it a one-part-sun-kissed-sweat-mixed-with-two-parts-South-of-France-glow for a metallic, odd-looking color aptly named bronze. As I read the June issue of Glamour, it seemed that a race of she-bots stared back at me, their bronze metallic skin glowing in the studio-filtered sun, their blonde hair only slightly lighter than their newly tanned skin. All of the winter pale models with their milky white skin had been dipped in vats of gold paint and transformed into Brazilian versions...