Word: kato
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...powers or over the hill? Japanese Gymnast Koji Gushiken, 27, competes in a sport increasingly dominated by younger athletes. Yet the Osaka native began training four Olympiads ago. As a sixth grader viewing TV coverage of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, he saw his countryman Sawao Kato win the gold medal in gymnastics and thought, "I have to do something like that." He took up gymnastics immediately, but his progress was slowed by two successive and serious injuries: a torn ligament in his left leg and a severed Achilles tendon. His appearance in international meets was both belated...
...great labor has gone into creating a robot that can watch someone constructing an arrangement of toy blocks and then duplicate that arrangement. Engineers at Japan's Waseda University built a robot seven years ago that could see and hear and carry out spoken instructions, but, says Ichiro Kato, chairman of the graduate school of science and engineering, "it had the mentality of a child 1½ years old." Kato's lab is now building a more advanced model. Says Kato: "It will probably have the mentality of a five-year...