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  • Although the Titan VII climbing robot has only four legs, its designers drew their inspiration from spiders, which have exceptional climbing skills. Built by Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, a research associate in the Tokyo laboratory of Shigeo Hirose, the machine is intended to be a mobile construction platform on steep slopes. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 193.
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  • Barstow, California Main Street crammed with gas, hotel, and fast food signs. USA.
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  • Inside the crater at Haleakala National Park. Maui, Hawaii. USA. Alan Burdick sitting on a small hill. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • t the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, computer scientist John M. Hollerbach puts a lab staff member on the SARCOS Treadport, a device that mimics the tug and pull of acceleration. Walking on a treadmill, the staffer is surrounded by a projected simulation of a Western mountainside. On a real hill, hikers must struggle with their own inertia to surmount the slope, a sensation no ordinary treadmill can provide. The Treadport uses force-feedback to push or pull at the user, uncannily evoking the sensation of climbing, a new dimension of realism for this type of simulation. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 137 top.
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  • Rice fields on a volcanic slope, near the village of Ubud at Penatahan, Bali, Indonesia (Indonesia is the world's fourth most populated country).(page 56,57) Indonesian children hunt dragonflies with a specialized capture and retrieve method?each individual dragonfly is spotted, then snagged with sticky jack fruit sap stuck on the end of an extended bamboo whip in the rice fields. This practice has become rarer as Indonesians become wealthier.
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  • Although the Titan VII climbing robot has only four legs, its designers drew their inspiration from spiders, which have exceptional climbing skills. Built by Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, a research associate in the Tokyo laboratory of Shigeo Hirose, the machine is intended to be a mobile construction platform on steep slopes. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 192.
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  • Robotic autonomous-control technology will become more and more useful to the disabled in the future, as Hugh Herr can testify. A double amputee, MIT Leg Lab researcher Herr is developing a robotic knee. Standard prosthetic joints cannot sense the forces acting on a human leg. But a robotic knee can sense and react to its environment, allowing amputees to walk through snow or on steep slopes now impassable for them. Cambridge, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 181.
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  • Two young Inca herders smile shyly at the camera before disappearing down the mountainside to tend their llamas and sheep in the high mountain passes above the city of Cuzco on the southern slopes of the Andes. (Man Eating Bugs page 150,151)
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