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Dancing Machine Inventor: Tohoku University, Nomura Unison Group, TroisO Co. Ltd. Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: www.irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/top.html With a face modeled on Marilyn Monroe's and a long, flowing skirt to hide its three wheels, the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot is a 5-ft. 5-in. waltzing humanoid. Available in hot pink or blue, it has upper-body sensors that allow it to "predict" its partner's next steps. Dancing is just one application. "By interpreting users' movements to estimate what they want, care robots will be able to provide better service for the elderly...
Patchwork Inventor: Ellis Developments Ltd. Availability: Now, in England only To Learn More: ellisdev.co.uk It may look like a delicate doily, but the Bioimplantable Device is a rugged internal bandage that helps patients recover swiftly from shoulder-joint-replacement surgery. Made of standard polyester surgical thread, the device has an embroidered pattern that gives it strength and flexibility while imitating human tendons. Once implanted between muscles and bones, the device is never removed; it becomes part of the body as cells grow over it. This technology is also being used to replace slipped disks in the neck...
Another recipient, Rahul Bajaj, MBA ’64, has run the Indian auto manufacturer Bajaj Auto Ltd., the fourth-largest manufacturer of three-wheeled scooters and motorcycles in the world, for the past four decades...
According to a confidential report produced the day after the bombing by a private London security firm, Aegis Defense Services Ltd., which was seen and read by Pentagon officials, the team was probably four to six strong, although it is technically feasible that one or two bombers conducted the attacks. A British official says that based on the method of the attacks, "they would have needed quite a number of people, possibly as many as 10." The Aegis report says it is possible that the explosives were "constructed by an experienced bombmaker, possibly coming to the U.K. for that very...
Loud outcries greeted Mulroney's decision last month to sell De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., the unprofitable manufacturer of the Dash-8 commuter aircraft, to the Boeing company. Workers and leaders of both opposition parties would have preferred to see the government find a Canadian buyer for the company. Quebecers protested when the government allowed Ultramar, a British owned oil firm, to close down a Montreal refinery. Suzanne Blais-Grenier, who had already been demoted from her post as Environment Minister, used the controversy as an excuse to resign...