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  • Prestige Lexington Towers, which house the offices of U.S. software giant Oracle Corporation in Bangalore, India.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a  call center worker, sits at his workstation at the AOL call center on the outskirts of Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A street vendor sells corn near the Brigade Road shopping and commercial area in Bangalore, India
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Redwood City, California, Oracle Headquarters. (1999).
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  • The courtyard of a high rise office tower that houses the call center where Shashi Kanth works in Bangalore, India.  (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The offices of global management, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture, in Bangalore, India.
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  • Apple computer Inc., Cupertino, California; Silicon Valley. (1999).
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  • Advertisement on the window of a McDonald's restaurant in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • McDonald's restaurant, Beijing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • McDonald's fast food chain in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • View through the trellis structure in front of the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago, Il. USA. And downtown cityscape.
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  • View through the trellis structure in front of the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago, Il. USA. And downtown cityscape.
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  • View through the trellis structure at the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago, Il. USA. And downtown cityscape.
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  • McDonald's icon in Shanghai, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED: EXCEPT FOR CHECKOUT BOY) Finishing their weekly grocery shopping expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, go through the checkout line. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. In other ways, the supermarket hews closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Shrink-wrapped meat for sale at one of the bigger Ito Yokado supermarkets (a Japanese chain) in Bejing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A newer common sight is the long line of younger or newly affluent urbanites ending at the cash register of the biggest Western fast-food chain in China; their choice, on the left, is the "Leisurely Fried Wings Meal." More than a hundred KFC outlets operate in Beijing alone. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 78). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • McDonald's in Luxembourg City Center.
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Using a scanning electron microscope to find an impurity in glass that was causing it to shatter. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Wind tunnel study of flat spray head. Testing pesticide dispersion for various speeds of crop duster aerial application. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Roland Huet with broken window caused by impurity in glass. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. "Probeye" camera sees & measures thermal radiation: Chris Lund. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Pop tart flame test. Larry Anderson. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Pop tart flame test. Larry Anderson. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent. Roland Huet with broken window caused by impurity in glass. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent. Menlo Park, California.
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  • Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Human thermal plume, Schlieren image. The human body heats air to form a rising plume. This is revealed by Schlieren photography, a way of viewing density changes in transparent materials. These changes (here caused by heat and convection turbulence) cause light passing through the air to bend (refract). The imaging method alters the color or brightness of this refracted light. The detection of chemicals in the human thermal plume may help detect terrorist explosives and diagnose diseases.
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  • Deftly opening a door, the Honda P3 walks its assigned path at the Honda Research Center, outside Tokyo, Japan. The product of a costly decade-long effort, the Honda robotic project was only released from its shroud of corporate secrecy in 1996. In a carefully choreographed performance, P3 walks a line, opens a door, turns a corner, and, after a safety chain is attached, climbs a flight of stairs. Despite its mechanical sophistication, it can't respond to its environment. If people were to step in its way, the burly robot would knock them down without noticing them. Ultimately, of course, Honda researchers hope to change that. But, in what seems an attempt to hedge the company's bet, P3 senior engineer Masato Hirose is also working on sending the robot to places where it cannot possibly injure anyone. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 42.
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  • Unilever tea plantation workers' housing amidst the lush, rolling tea fields in the Kericho district, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The Kericho district in the Great Rift Valley has rich volcanic soil, cool air, and a moist tropical climate that's perfect for growing tea. With its popular tea brand Lipton, Unilever has helped make Kenya the number one exporter of black tea in the world. Since the evergreen tea bushes are picked every 14 to 17 days year-round, there is constant work for pickers. They're paid by the kilo of tea leaves and a field foreman reported that they can earn between $3 and $9 (USD) per day. To compete with Unilever and James Finlay, another huge corporate tea producer in Kenya, the Kenya Tea Development Agency represents half a million small-scale tea growers throughout Kenya.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Intel museum; Santa Clara, California. Clean room display A "clean" room display at the Intel Museum at Intel's corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. 220 Mission College Boulevard, Santa, Clara, CA 95052. Tel (408)765-0503. The museum has hands on displays to teach about computers and chip-making. Model Released (1999).
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  • Ten years and tens of millions of dollars in the making, the Honda P3 strides down its course at the car company's secret research facility on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan. The product of a costly decade-long effort, the Honda robotic project was only released from its shroud of corporate secrecy in 1996. In a carefully choreographed performance, P3 walks a line, opens a door, turns a corner, and, after a safety chain is attached, climbs a flight of stairs. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 34-35.
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  • A few miles down the coast from Yomitan Village, in the town of Chatan, construction workers building Okinawa's biggest hotel, a 24-story complex, begin their day with compulsory exercises (until recently, a method of instilling esprit de corps that was common throughout corporate Japan). Unlike most other developed nations, Japan does not depend on foreign workers to perform hard physical labor. The overwhelming majority, if not all, of these men are Japanese. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 189). This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Robot baby doll. Robot baby doll with part of its "skin" removed to show its inner workings. This toy, known as BIT (Baby IT), is a prototype of the My Real Baby interactive baby doll developed by IRobot Corporation and Hasbro Corporation. The BIT doll mimics the facial expression of a human baby by changing the contours on its lifelike rubber face. The BIT baby doll was developed by IS Robotics, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. 
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  • Bill Gates (born 1955), US business executive and computer engineer. Gates made his fame and fortune in the personal computer boom of the 1980s. His company, Microsoft Corporation, produced operating systems (MS-DOS) and application programs (Windows) that became the World standard for so-called IBM-compatible computers. Microsoft Corporation is the World's leading software company, and Gates himself became the youngest billionaire when he was just 31 years old. (1995).
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  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
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  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
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  • (1992) Cetus Corporation (CA) "Thermo-Cycler", using TAQ-1 bacterium amplifies DNA Millionfold overnight using P.C.R. (Polymerase chain reaction). DNA Fingerprinting.
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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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  • Assortment of the genetic varieties (hybrids) of corn produced for experimental cultivation. Different strains display variation in thickness, length and color of the cob, and the number of grains on the cob. Escagen Corporation, San Carlos, California.  [1987].
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  • Sleek and elegant, the head of this unfinished robot was constructed by the Symbiotic Intelligence Group of the Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project. It is funded by an ERATO grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation, a branch of the Science and Technology Agency of the Japanese government. SIG, as this robot is named, has a white outside shell designed by a project artist, group leader Hiroaki Kitano is a firm believer in the importance of aesthetics. Tokyo, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 80-81.
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  • Spider web: Orb web of Araneus diadematus on coastal sage habitat in la Costa, California (San Diego County). The Fieldstone Corporation owns the land of a future housing subdivision site that is also California gnatcatcher habitat (a threatened species).
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  • John Barone, senior Project Manager of the Fieldstone Corporation (a big developer). At future housing subdivision site; home to the threatened Gnatcatcher bird in La Costa, California, (San Diego County) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Physics: Raychem Corporation's CEO Paul Cook in electron accelerator radiation chamber (plastic pipe irradiation) MODEL RELEASED [1987]
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  • UEC Solar. Shot in San Francisco, research facility. California. Solar photovoltaic chip on a human finger. UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a water bearing tk (frictionless) so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. (1985).
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  • (1992) AIDS research conducted at Cetus Corporation in Emeryville, California, using PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) analysis. DNA Fingerprinting..
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  • A vendor cleans corn as she waits for customers in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador.  Grocery stores, supermarkets, and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. As transportation became more efficient (especially refrigerated transport), and farms became huge, big corporations moved into the food business to take advantage of scale, especially in the United States. Now the convenience of one-stop shopping has made this business even bigger. Even the smaller supermarkets are being bought up or run out of business by the larger concerns. Some small town markets still exist today throughout much of Europe, although to a lesser degree there as well. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world, and, for better or worse, will remain so until they are numerous and big enough to attract the conglomerates' attention. Coming full circle, farmers markets have come back into vogue in some places in the USA where they had largely disappeared.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian Corporation Software; 4 PM: CEO Doug Merritt meets with three employees to strategize on an internal program to instill company values in their employees. The ping pong table they are meeting over was Icarian's first meeting table. All of Icarian's employees are ranked according to their ping-pong ability and there is a "ladder" of their ranking posted on the web. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian Corporation Software CEO; Doug Merritt, talking on phone in his office, 9 am. Model Released (1999).
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  • Plant biotechnology research into the cultivation of disease-free potatoes, showing coated (white) & uncoated potato seeds. Scientists are working to provide growers with the ability to plant an acre with no more than one pound of seed, instead of the tons of tubers (seed potatoes) presently required to do the job. Seed also has the advantage that it is less likely to rot in storage: the resulting reduction in waste is projected to reduce growers' costs by $100 per acre. Photo taken at Escagen Corporation, San Carlos, California. .[1987].
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  • MODEL RELEASED. Entertainer android robot. View of Sarcos, an android (human-like) entertainment robot, playing seven-card-stud poker with a group of robot engineers. Sarcos was developed at SARCOS Research Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • A protoype of the iRobot, a multi-purpose, web-controllable home robot built by the iRobot company. Following in the footsteps of other home robots like Sony's Aibo, iRobot Corporation of Somerville, Massachusetts has included more advanced features in the iRobot such as programmability, wireless Internet connectivity, and higher mobility. The robot is intended to bring tele-presence into the home with its cameras, microphones, mobility, Internet connection, and control-ability.
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  • Entertainer android robot. View of SARCOS, an android (human-like) entertainment robot, posing as if about to contemplate his next brush stroke on a life-like robot mask. SARCOS was developed at SARCOS Research Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Photo-Illustration. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • The Sony humanoid robot prototype SDR-3X is held by professional Sumo wrestler Tamarashi ("Bullet-storm"). Sony Corporation announced the development of this small bipedal walking robot in November of 2000. By synchronizing the movements of 24 joints on its body, Sony says, the robot can perform basic movements such as walking and changing direction, rising from a seated position, balancing on one leg, kicking a ball, and dancing. Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Pino, short for Pinocchio (after the fabled wooden puppet that becomes a human boy), is a full-bodied, child-sized, humanoid robot. Even before it demonstrates the ability of a wide range of bipedal movements it already has a national following in Japan after the release of a music video called "Can You Keep a Secret" in which the robot stars alongside one of Japan's most popular recording artists, Hikaru Utada. It has elevated Tatsuya Matsui, the artist who created the robot design, to celebrity status. The robot project is part of a large ERATO grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation, a branch of the Science and Technology Agency of the Japanese government. Project creator Hiraoki Kitano believes that the aesthetics of a robot are important in order for it to be accepted by humans into their living space. At the Kitano Symbiotic Systems, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Fans invited off a street in Tokyo's Harajuku area to meet Pino pose with the popular robot. Pino, short for Pinocchio (after the fabled wooden puppet that becomes a human boy), is a full-bodied, child-sized, humanoid robot. Even before it demonstrates the ability of a wide range of bipedal movements it already has a national following in Japan after the release of a music video called "Can You Keep a Secret" in which the robot stars alongside one of Japan's most popular recording artists, Hikaru Utada. It has elevated Tatsuya Matsui, the artist who created the robot design, to celebrity status and provoked murmurs of dissent by some in the robotics community who see the robot as a commercial entity rather than a serious research project. Interestingly, the robot project is part of a large ERATO grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation, a branch of the Science and Technology Agency of the Japanese government. Project creator Hiraoki Kitano  believes that the aesthetics of a robot are important in order for it to be accepted by humans into their living space. At the Kitano Symbiotic Systems, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Surgeon Anno Diegeler completes a cardiac surgery using traditional methods, after the decision is made to switch from the use of a minimally invasive robotic technique at the Herzzentrum Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany. Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany.
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  • Dr. Volkmar Falk performs robotic surgery on a patient from controls in the next room at the Herzzentrum Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany. (Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. The assistant surgeon has incised small holes into the patient's chest wall through which the instruments-attached to sterile plastic covered manipulating arms-will pass and be telemanipulated by the surgeon in the next room. The room in which the surgeon is working is a less sterile work environment than that of the operating room where the patient lies. It is much like an office; phones are ringing, there is heavy foot traffic and personal conversation-at times at crescendo level.
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  • Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. The assistant surgeon has incised small holes into the patient's chest wall through which the instruments, attached to sterile plastic covered manipulating arms, will pass and be telemanipulated by the surgeon in the next room. The room in which the surgeon is working is a less sterile work environment than that of the operating room where the patient lies.
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  • Jack Arnold - VP of Harris Corporation with Microwave relay telecommunication equipment on top of a mountain, outside Vacaville, California. Equipment was built with Harris components. Double exposure of Harris in his office with the long night exposure of the equipment on the mountaintop with star trails (due to the rotation of the Earth). MODEL RELEASED
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  • Rocketdyne Corporation: Canoga Park (near Los Angeles), California; a division of Rockwell Aerospace in 1986. Technician seen here checking welds on rockets engine cone with ultraviolet light. Rocketdyne is the premier rocket engine design and production company in the United States. The company was related to North American Aviation (NAA) for most of its history. NAA merged with Rockwell International,, which was then bought by Boeing in December, 1996. In February, 2005, Boeing reached an agreement to sell Rocketdyne to Pratt & Whitney, and this transaction was completed on August 2, 2005.
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  • At the Sally Corporation in Jacksonville, Florida, technicians and artists work on robots for theme parks: heads, dogs, hatching monster birds and ghouls.
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  • Wielding a specially adapted needle, Lyudamila Budnik pushes eyebrow hairs into the head of a Greek princess at the Jacksonville, FL., headquarters of the Sally Corporation, a manufacturer of animatronic figures. This princess will become a small part of Labyrinth of the Minotaur, an interactive indoor ride in a new Spanish theme park, Terra Mítica (Mythic Earth). Jacksonville, Florida.  From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 209.
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  • Fans invited off a street in Tokyo's Harajuku area to meet Pino pose with the popular robot. Pino, short for Pinocchio (after the fabled wooden puppet that becomes a human boy), is a full bodied, child-sized, humanoid robot. Even before it demonstrates the ability of a wide range of bipedal movements it already has a national following in Japan after the release of a music video called "Can You Keep a Secret" in which the robot stars alongside one of Japan's most popular recording artists, Hikaru Utada. It has elevated Tatsuya Matsui, the artist who created the robot design (seated at left), to celebrity status. Interestingly, the robot project is part of a large ERATO grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation, a branch of the Science and Technology Agency of the Japanese government. Project creator Hiraoki Kitano (standing with arms crossed) believes that the aesthetics of a robot are important in order for it to be accepted by humans into their living space. At the Kitano Symbiotic Systems, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • First generation AIBO robot pet. Although they say it is only a robotic pet, the Nozue family in Yokohama acts like it is a member of the family. This is especially true of Mr. Nozue. During our two-hour Sunday morning visit, the family began by explaining that they had bought the Aibo through a nationwide lottery draw. They had wanted a real dog but their apartment building rules do not allow real pets so Mr. Nozue accessed the Sony site from work and applied for the lottery. His wife, Yoshini, says she never expected that they would actually buy the robotic pet because of the expense involved, they paid $2,500. AIBO is Japanese for buddy. Sony Corporation manufactures the robot. Photographed at the home of the Nozue family, Yokohama, Japan..
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