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  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Deborah Rieman, jumping with trainer at a Stable facility in Portola Valley, California. She was the CEO of an Israeli-founded company Checkpoint, Inc. that became successful designing and selling security firewalls which secure an organization's internal network from external hackers. Model Released (1999).
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  • Joey Chestnut, the world's most successful competitive eater, with 66 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and a gallon of water at Coney Island, New York City.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) This represents what Joey ate (and drank) in 12 minutes on July 4, 2007, to claim the title of world champion hot dog eater. The 66 hot dogs weighed 14.5 pounds and totaled 19,602 calories. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through 45 slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is included in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through his 25th slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through his 34th slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is included in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through his 18th slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is included in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Fearsome sawblades spinning, Pretty Hate Machine menaces the competition at Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. Organized by Marc Thorpe, a former Industrial Light and Magic model builder, the cybernetic slugfest spawned a six-week BBC-TV series and many similar events. Pretty Hate Machine is a middleweight-class machine; two wheelchair motors power a Rube Goldberg assembly of rods, rubber belts and saw blades. A real crowd-pleaser, Pretty Hate Machine was one of the few walking robots in a competition dominated by wheeled or tracked machines. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 200-201.
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  • In a spanking new, richly-appointed research center above a busy shopping street in Tokyo's stylish Harajuku district, Hiroaki Kitano shows off his robot soccer team. In addition to Kitano's humanoid-robot work at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, a five-year, government-funded ERATO project, Kitano is the founder and chair of Robot World Cup Soccer (RoboCup), an annual soccer competition for robots. There are four classes of contestants: small, medium, simulated, and dog (using Sony's programmable robot dogs). Kitano's small-class RoboCup team consists of five autonomous robots, which kick a golf ball around a field about the size of a ping-pong table. An overhead video camera feeds information about the location of the players to remote computers, which use the data to control the robots' offensive and defensive moves. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 213 top.
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  • Ringed by six-foot sheets of bulletproof glass and a sellout crowd, radio-controlled gladiators battle to the mechanical death. At Robot Wars, a two-day-long competition in San Francisco, the crowd roars to the near-constant shriek of metal, the crash of flying parts, and the thunderous beat of techno music. After a series of one-on-one matches, losers and winners alike duke it out in a final death-match called a Melee. California, USA
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  • Reviewing the results of her work, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Manuela Veloso (kneeling) watches the university soccer-robot team chase after the ball on a field on the floor of her lab. Every year, the Carnegie Mellon squad plays against other soccer-robot teams from around the world in an international competition known as RoboCup. Veloso's team, CMUnited, is highly regarded. Flanked by research engineer Sorin Achim, postdoctoral fellow Peter Stone, and graduate research assistant Michael Bowling (right to left), Veloso is running through the current year's strategy a month before the world championships in Stockholm. CMU's AIBO team members are Scott Lenser, Elly Winner, and James Bruce. Pittsburgh, PA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 214.
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  • Ringed by six-foot sheets of bullet-proof glass and a sellout crowd, radio-controlled gladiators battle to the mechanical death. At Robot Wars, a two-day-long competition in San Francisco, CA the crowd roars to the near-constant shriek of metal, the crash of flying parts, and the thunderous beat of techno music. After a series of one-on-one matches, losers and winners alike duke it out in a final death-match called a Melee. In this Melee, the 13-foot Snake curls to use its drill-bit tail on its hapless victim, a tracked vehicle; meanwhile, the simple yet primitively powerful Frenzy hammers the rolling, wedge-shaped Tazbot. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 202-203.
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  • A cheerleader pats the stomach and applies olive oil to one of the contestants in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square, where Joey Chestnut won the $5,000 first prize by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories.
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  • Hundreds of swimmers participate in the annual 2-kilometer (1.25-mile) ocean race at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Covarelli, with his prize-winning Koi and previously won trophies at his home in California. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars  USA. MODEL RELEASED.  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses the Sierras near Cougar Rock.
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  • Hula contest in Hilo. Big Island, Hawaii. USA.
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  • On the desert shooting range, a young woman competes in the 3-gun match.  Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas.
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  • Girls and two men play volleyball in the 12 de Octubre barrio in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • Long distance runners pass through a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Sand Hill Challenge Soap Box Derby in Menlo Park, California. Silicon Valley.
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  • In the East Bay suburb of Walnut Creek, near San Francisco, Will Wright and family collectively in their garage preparing their creation for "Robot Wars"(daughter Cassidy 11, nephew Patrick 14, and Will). Later that week, in a battle pit ringed by six-foot sheets of bulletproof glass and a sellout crowd, radio-controlled gladiators battle their robots to the mechanical death. Will Wright developed the Sims software games.
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  • Painted pink to give competitors a false sense of its harmlessness, Mouser Catbot 2000 has two deadly sawblades in its nose and tail and a hidden flipper on its back for overturning enemy robots. Built by Californians Fon Davis and April Mousley (left to right), the machine deftly trounced Vlad the Impaler, a larger machine with a hydraulic spike that shot from its snout  at Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 205.
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  • The most sophisticated machines don't necessarily triumph in the violent gladiatorial battles at San Francisco's Robot Wars, as shown when Tazbot (with turret), a simple, remote-controlled vehicle, forces a much more sophisticated, autonomously moving opponent to self-destruct. San Francisco, CA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 204 bottom.
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  • Canoe race across the frozen St. Laurence seaway during winter carnival. Quebec, Canada.
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  • Judges from Japan evaluating contestants at a Koi fish show in California. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses some very rugged terrain. .Hal Hall's winning horse Francisco takes a hay and water break as the full moon rises.near mile 78 in. (1990).
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  • Girls and two men play volleyball in the 12 de Octubre barrio in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • Diamond polisher Mestilde's Shigwedha's netball team (outside the court on left) waits their turn to play in a city tournament in Windhoek, Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The team is sponsored by Mesti's employer, NamCot Diamonds, which is part of the Steinmetz Group.
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  • Giant pandas eat and lounge at the Giant Panda Research and Breeding Center, in Chengdu, China.  The giant panda is a highly endangered species, with a roaming population of only 1590. The captive population was 189 in 2005, according to the Third Giant Panda Survey (2004).
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  • Men engage in a game of tug-of-war in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • After the battle at San Francisco's Robot Wars, robot owners quickly repair what they can in the adjacent pit area . Full of machines being groomed for combat and surgically rescued after it, the pit is a sort of electronic fighter's dressing room and hospital emergency room. Video monitors above the pit give contestants a view of the action. At Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 204 top.
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  • Even someone who believes that in the future most humans will become the slaves of all-powerful machines has to have a laugh sometimes. Why not have it with toy machines? Taking a moment off from his work at the cybernetics department at the University of Reading in the UK, Kevin Warwick (on left), author of March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World, plays with Lego Mindstorm robots that his students have programmed to box with each other. The toys are wildly popular with engineers and computer scientists because they can be programmed to perform an amazing variety of tasks. In this game, sensors on the toys determine which machine has been hit the most. In his more serious work, Warwick is now trying to record his neural signals on a computer and replay them into his nervous system. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 222-223.
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  • German National Research Center robot scientists pose for a group portrait in the main hall of the center's Schloss Burlinghoven (administrative building of GMD). Left to Right: Bernhard Klaassen holding "Snake2", Rainer Worst, Jurgen Vollmer (with hand on KURT, a sewer inspection robot prototype), Frank Kirchner, holding "Sir Arthur" a first generation walking robot, Ina Kople, Herman Streich, and Jorg Wilburg. (Three people on right in back of robocup-playing middleweight robots and soccer ball.) Bonn, Germany
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  • Teenagers in Poutasi village, Western Samoa, play volleyball in front of the village church. Material World Project.
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  • A racer in the World Cup mountain bike race at Skyline Park. Napa Valley, California. USA.
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  • Thirty Bhuddhist temples compete in a temple drumming contest near Ban Muang Wa village, Thailand. Music. Religion. Published in Material World page 87. This is an especial favorite pastime of many locals including the Khuenkaew family of Ban Muang Wa village. They live there in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut (sitting at right), who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories.
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  • A competitive eating contestant licks his lips at the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Time Square.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who the first prize of $5,000 in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Timothy C. Draper, 3rd generation venture capitalist, at and on the conference room table of his offices in Redwood City. He plays competitive Frisbee. Model Released (1999).
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut holds a plastic briefcase with $5,000 after winning the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is included in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian corporation software; 5:18 PM: Doug Merritt and Rani Hublou, the husband and wife team that leads Icarian, Inc. and the Icarian workforce in the company's Sunnyvale, California office. Merritt says that Icarian is managed so as to be a fun place to work. This is exemplified by the company-wide Friday afternoon in-line-skate hockey competitions that are held in the parking lot. Usually they drink beer from the company keg in the company lunchroom after the game but since this was the beginning of the Fourth of July weekend, everyone went home after the game at 6 PM. (1999).
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  • Performers entertain the audience at the  Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square before the eating contest by throwing pizza dough in the air. Joey Chestnut won the competition by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; 9:15 PM Driving south on Highway 101, C.E.O. Scott Hublou returns voice mail on his cell phone. Scott is returning to the Asimba.com office in Mountain View, California after an evening run. Scott is preparing for an upcoming Ironman competition for which he trains twice a day. Model Released (1999).
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  • In a spanking new, richly-appointed research center above a busy shopping street in Tokyo's stylish Harajuku district, Hiroaki Kitano shows off his robot soccer team. In addition to Kitano's humanoid-robot work at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, a five-year, government-funded ERATO project, Kitano is the founder and chair of Robot World Cup Soccer (RoboCup), an annual soccer competition for robots. There are four classes of contestants: small, medium, simulated, and dog (using Sony's programmable robot dogs). Kitano's small-class RoboCup team consists of five autonomous robots, which kick a golf ball around a field about the size of a ping-pong table. An overhead video camera feeds information about the location of the players to remote computers, which use the data to control the robots' offensive and defensive moves. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 213 bottom.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Alma Casales, the children, and her brother-in-law Jorge emerges from their local Carrefour supermarket in Cuernavaca, Mexico after shopping for a weeks' worth of food for the family food portrait. Carrefour has since left the Mexico grocery market because of fierce competition. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Grinning around his cigarette, a fishmonger in an Istanbul market offers a Turkish favorite: the anchovy-like fish hamsi, which can be cooked, according to a Black Sea legend, in 40 different ways. In his canvas-covered stall, the vendor moves from neighborhood market to neighborhood market, each open a different day in the week. Generally, no two neighboring markets operate on the same day?they don't want the competition. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 256). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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