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...hardest things to get a robot to do is walk on two legs, but nowadays bipedal is practically banal. The real trick is to give your humanoid a smooth, natural gait. The J4, above, JVC's 8-in. showpiece at a recent Tokyo trade show, proved it could walk a nice walk and kick a soccer ball to boot. It's controlled via Bluetooth. The Chroino, right--if we didn't know any better, we'd think it was Playmobil's tribute to Marvin the Martian--also boasts a more graceful stride, thanks to new SHIN-Walk technology that allows...
INVENTORS J4: JVC; Chroino: Tomotaka Takahashi, Robo-Garage, Kyoto University...
...from Cologne, spent eight weeks in intensive training to master the East Berlin accent. His gullible mother is played by famed East German actress Katrin Sass. Other East German actors helped revise the script to eliminate expressions and slang not used in the East. The film, which cost j4 million to make, was initially beset by bad luck. Frequent storms halted filming, a number of actors fell ill, and it proved difficult to remake the East Berlin neighborhood to look like 1989 - all the parking meters had to be removed, for example. The key moment in the film, when...
...Exact heading: northwest by J4 north, i.e., 318° true. *The first Nautilus, built by Robert Fulton in 1800, was named after the paper nautilus, a mollusk that was mistakenly thought to cruise the surface of the sea with fleshy sails, and to submerge at will. Most famed Nautilus (named after Fulton's) was the prodigious sea raider commanded by Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. † Natural uranium from which some of the nonfissionable U-238 has been removed, leaving a larger proportion of fissionable 0-235. *The story of Rickover...
...More impressive to order than to drink. In the United Kingdom, a double whisky is i J4 to 2 oz., about the size of a single drink in U.S. bars...