Word: j4
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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...