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...movement pattern and replicate it by moving its body. So far, the robot has acquired about 30 skills, including juggling, air hockey, yo-yoing, folk dancing and playing the drum. Kawato is calling for a 30-year national project that would combine government money, academic research and corporate know-how to build a humanoid with the intelligence and the physical ability of a 5-year-old. He calls the proposal the Atom Project--after the Japanese name for the comic-book robot superhero known in the U.S. as Astro Boy. "Atom was abandoned by its creator, who built...
...feared most from an optional fee. It runs the risk of more students opting-out; a disproportionate number of students may well become free-riders, refusing to pay the fee but still using council services. Though we are skeptical that the council will have the manpower and the know-how to manage its new budget effectively, we still hope that it has enough student trust to ensure that the free-rider problem doesn’t actually decrease the council’s coffers...
...sons and one daughter work for him, but he says it's unclear whether any of them will occupy his corner office when he retires. "It'd be good for them to become independent and start their own companies," he says. "That way, they could learn management know-how. Nothing has been decided." And while two sons-in-law and one daughter work for Minoru, he too won't confirm whether any of them will one day take over the company. "I am open to management excellence wherever it may come from," Minoru says...
Palepu said he has much experience doing case studies abroad, both with the aid of HBS research centers and that he has found the contacts and know-how cultivated by the regional center indispensable. With years of experience researching in India, Palepu now wants other HBS professors to have the same chance...
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