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  • Tokyo, Japan. Retrospective photo exhibit titled “Evolution of Visual Ideas” displays work from all of Menzel & D’Aluisio’s books at the University of Agriculture.
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  • Tokyo, Japan. Retrospective photo exhibit titled “Evolution of Visual Ideas” displays work from all of Menzel & D’Aluisio’s books at the University of Agriculture.
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  • Tokyo, Japan. Retrospective photo exhibit titled “Evolution of Visual Ideas” displays work from all of Menzel & D’Aluisio’s books at the University of Agriculture.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio asks a family about their remembrance of an ancestor in a Tokyo suburb memorial garden. Japan
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  • Sayo Ukia (back to camera) shops for fruits and vegetables in the Kodaira City neighborhood, outside Tokyo, Japan, where she and her family live. Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). Rather than shop in one store for all items, she shops in a green market, a general merchandise store (pictured) and a fish market. Kodaira City, Tokyo, Japan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • Jun Yajima, a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, rides across a bridge over the Tokyo River to make a delivery on the busy streets of Tokyo, Japan.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) practicing in Tokyo, Japan. Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A busy street in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan. Shibuya district serves as the administrative and commercial center of Tokyo.
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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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  • First generation face robot from the Hara-Kobayashi Lab in Tokyo. Lit from behind to reveal the machinery beneath the skin. The machinery will change the contours of the robot's skin to create facial expressions. It does this by using electric actuators, which change their shape when an electric current is passed through them. The devices will return to their original shape when the current stops. This robot face was developed at the Laboratory of Fumio Hara and Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Science University, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • First generation face robot from the Hara-Kobayashi Lab in Tokyo. Lit from behind to reveal the machinery beneath the skin. The machinery will change the contours of the robot's skin to create facial expressions. It does this by using electric actuators, which change their shape when an electric current is passed through them. The devices will return to their original shape when the current stops. Unfortunately these actuators proved very slow at returning to their original shape, causing an expression to remain on the face for too long. This robot face was developed at the Laboratory of Fumio Hara and Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Science University, Tokyo, Japan. The robot head is lit from within by a pencil light strobe cloaked in a yellow gel.
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  • Professor Fumio Hara and Assistant Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi's female face robot (second-generation) at Science University of Tokyo, Japan, has shape-memory electric actuators that move beneath the robot's silicon skin to change the face into different facial expressions much as muscles do in the human face. The actuators are very slow to return to their original state and remedying this is one of the research projects facing the Hara and Kobayashi Lab. The robot head is lit from within by a pencil light strobe cloaked in a yellow gel. It was photographed in the neon bill-boarded area of Shinjuku, a section of Tokyo, on a rainy evening at rush hour. Robo sapiens cover image. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species.
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  • Children run home from school down a street lined with shops near the train station in the Ukita family's neighborhood in Kodaira City, outside Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 54. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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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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  • Nursery prams on a street in Kodaira City, outside Tokyo, Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Kazuo Ukita (under the clock on the platform reading the newspaper) and other salary men and women wait for the train to take them to work in, and around, Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 51. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Young Japanese regularly clog the streets of the trendy Harajuku area of Tokyo, near the train station. Tokyo, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, powers down a busy street in the Shibuya Ward (district) of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • After he removes its skin, Fumio Hara gets the once-over from a face robot in the lab he co-directs with Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan. The first of several face robots made in his lab, it has a CCD camera in its left eye that sends images to neural-network software that recognizes faces and their expressions. Calling upon its repertoire of programmed reactions, it activates the motors and pulleys beneath its flexible skin to produce facial expressions of its own. The project is relatively unusual in its focus, many researchers believe that making robots walk and manipulate objects is so difficult that facial expressions are not yet worth working on. Hara disagrees, arguing that robots with animated faces will communicate with humans much more easily. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 74-75.
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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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  • Masako Mizuhashi, a plastic food artist, eats at home during a lunch break in suburban Tokyo, Japan, with her typical day's worth of food (made of plastic) on the table. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, washes dishes in the kitchen of his tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, gets take out dinner from a  fast food restaurant near the train station close to his home in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, powers down a busy street in the Shibuya Ward (district) of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • 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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  • A buyer checks fish with numbers painted on them ready for the pre-dawn auction at the Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A worker adds plastic resin to a dessert of plastic food at the factory of Iwasaki Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A worker shows a sample of plastic food ready to be shipped at the factory of Iwasaki Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A giant chef head looms on top of a building in the Kappa-Bashi district of Tokyo, Japan, which is know as a restaurant equipment wholesale district, including plastic food.
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  • A teenage girl with white face at Harajuku.Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..View of the entrance of Tokyo University's Proton Decay Experiment. 1,000 50-centimeter photomultiplier tubes line the 12-meter deep tank of water form the experiment. The water contains enough protons to provide an average of one decay event per year, an event that may be detected by these tubes as the particles from the decay cause a visible light phenomenon known as Cerenkov radiation. The experiment is taking place 914 meters underground in a zinc mine below Mt. Ikenoyama to minimize the effects of cosmic rays. Japan. (1985).
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  • After a hard day of work as a bike messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service in Tokyo, Japan, Jun Yajima (left) takes a train ride home. Physically exhausted after a long day's work, he is able to catch a nap standing up on the hour long commute. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan. Younger, smaller, and less experienced sumo wrestlers go through exercises emphasizing team unity at the end of a grueling morning practice. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Shinjuku District of Tokyo, Japan, serves as a commercial and administrative center of the city.
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  • Two girls walk past a Condomania condom shop and a McDonald's fast food outlet in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A patron finishes his meal at a Shibuya-area Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. The Wendy's hamburger chain closed all of their 71 restaurants in Japan at the end of 2009. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A giant french fry sign at a  McDonald's restaurant in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Masato Takeuchi (ring name Miyabiyama), a sumo wrestler at the junior champion level (sekiwale) is the premier wrestler of the Musashigawa Beya, based in Tokyo, Japan.   (Masato Tekeuchi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan.  Sumos cook and eat chanko nabe, a stew pot of vegetable and meat or fish, at nearly every meal. It  is eaten with copious amounts of rice and numerous side dishes. Miyabiyama eats now to maintain his weight rather than to gain it, unlike the younger less gargantuan wrestlers in his stable who are eating a lot to pack on weight.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan. A professional sumo wrestler sends his opponent tumbling to the floor during practice with his team.
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  • The H7 robot walks without a safety harness at the Inoue-Inaba Robotics Lab. A joystick operating student, seated at right maneuvers the robot. Research Associate Satoshi Kagami (wearing a suit in the photo) walks with the robot, armed with its "kill switch" in case the robot malfunctions. Its predecessor, H6 hangs at left, near another student who is ready to step in, in the event that the robot falls. The researchers are fairly relaxed during the demonstration compared to those in other labs. University of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • In Tokyo, Japan, REONA, a life-sized silicon sex doll sells for $7,500 (U.S.). The doll was shown at the apartment of the creator, a designer of artificial prosthetics, in a small room that served as his office. It was slouched in a leather chair dressed in a silk pajama and pantyhose. He changed the clothes to show the full figure, including private parts, which are removable and washable (not inserted for the photo). The doll is moved around by wheelchair. Its cold clammy skin was not a problem, assured the designer. "The doll has great thermoconductive properties. You can put an electric blanket on it for a while and it will retain body heat for a long time."
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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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  • The robot, called Kenta, (Ken means tendon in Japanese) has a flexible spinal column that resembles that of the human body; 96 motors; a five-joint neck; a10 joint spine (each with 3 degrees of freedom); and fast-moving stereo vision that can track a flesh color object. The neck and torso are coordinated to respond in concert with the eye's movement. Student researchers create movements for the robot in simulation and then feed the simulations back to the robot. Professor Hirochika Inoue thinks that developing robots with this structure of incredibly decreased weight and fewer parts will reduce the cost and the complexity of robots in the future for more widespread application. Inoue-Inaba Robotic Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • The robot, called Kenta, (Ken means tendon in Japanese) has a flexible spinal column that resembles that of the human body; 96 motors; a five-joint neck; a 10 joint spine (each with 3 degrees of freedom); and fast-moving stereo vision that can track a flesh colored object. The neck and torso are coordinated to respond in concert with the eye's movement. Student researchers create movements for the robot in simulation and then feed the simulations back to the robot. Professor Hirochika Inoue thinks that developing robots with this structure of incredibly decreased weight and fewer parts will reduce the cost and the complexity of robots in the future for more widespread application. Inoue-Inaba Robotic Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Students in the laboratory of Professor Fumio Hara and Hiroshi Kobayashi at Science University of Tokyo work on their various robot projects, including the labs' first generation face robot. This three-dimensional human-like animated pneumatic face robot can recognize human facial expressions as well as produce realistic facial expressions in real time. The animated face robot, covered in latex "skin" is equipped with a CCD camera in the left eye and is able to collect facial image data that is used for on-line recognition of human facial expressions.
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  • Professor Fumio Hara of the Hara and Kobayashi Lab at Science University of Tokyo with his lab's first-generation robot head, without its skin. This three-dimensional human-like animated pneumatic face robot can recognize human facial expressions as well as produce realistic facial expressions in real time. The animated face robot, covered in latex "skin" is equipped with a CCD camera in the left eye and is able to collect facial image data that is used for on-line recognition of human facial expressions. (Draped in white veil by photographer.)
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  • The inner workings of the first generation face robot from the Hara-Kobayashi Lab in Tokyo, Japan. The first of several face robots made in Fumio Hara's lab, it has a CCD camera in its left eye that sends images to neural-network software that recognizes faces and their expressions. Calling upon its repertoire of programmed reactions, it activates the motors and pulleys beneath its flexible skin to produce facial expressions of its own. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 4.
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  • Researchers adjust the mechanism of WE-3RIII, Waseda University's head robot, after it accidentally whiplashed into its own wires. In a situation all too familiar to robotics researchers, Atsuo Takanishi ( hand on right) is trying to make his creation work. His research team's robot, WE-3RIII (Waseda Eye Number 3 Refined Version III) can follow a light with its digital-camera eyes, moving its head if needed. In the laboratory the robot worked perfectly, its movements almost disconcertingly lifelike. But while being installed at a robot exhibit in Tokyo, WE-3RIII inexplicably and violently threw back its head, tearing apart its own wiring. Now Takanishi and one of his students (hand on left) are puzzling over the problem and will solve it only in the early hours of the morning before the exhibit opened. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 233.
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  • When a terrifying earthquake leveled part of Turkey in the fall of 1999, rescuers had trouble pulling victims from the rubble because it was too risky to crawl through the unstable ruins. As a result, some people died before they could be rescued. Shigeo Hirose of the Tokyo Technical Institute thinks he may have the solution: Blue Dragon (Souryu in Japanese). A light, triple-jointed robot with a digital camera in its nose, Blue Dragon could crawl through an earthquake-damaged building in search of survivors. Wriggling over a pile of shattered concrete on a construction site at the institute's campus, the battery-operated robot fell over several times, but righted itself quickly and continued slithering through the pile of stone. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 148-149.
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  • Atsuo Takanishi of the Humanoid Research Laboratory, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, conversing with writer Faith D'Aluisio at his university laboratory. One of the leading researchers at Japan's Waseda University's long-term robotics project, mechanical engineer Atsuo Takanishi studied under the late Ichiro Kato, a robotics pioneer, and superb fundraiser, who made the school into the epicenter of the field. Continuing Kato's emphasis on "biomechatronics", replicating the functions of animals with machines, Takanishi now supervises the research group that produced WABIAN-RII (behind him in photograph). From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 18.
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  • Lights from futuristic concept cars reflecting in the shiny column behind his head, Honda P3 chief engineer Masato Hirose has been entrusted with the transportation company's hopes of getting beyond wheels. Tokyo, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 45.
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  • Sitting on a mobile motorized cushion he calls a "vuton," Shigeo Hirose of the Tokyo Institute of Technology surrounds himself with some of the robots he has built in the last two decades. Beside him is the snake-bot ACM R-1, one of his earliest projects. It is made of modules, any number of which can be hooked together to produce a mechanical snake that slowly, jerkily undulates down its path. Hirose, who is primarily funded by industry, hopes to develop commercially useful robots; the snake, he thinks, could be useful for inspecting underground pipes. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 88.
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  • Sometimes described as the grand old man of Japanese robotics, Hirochika Inoue of the University of Tokyo is one of the directors of the nation's massive effort to develop a humanoid robot. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 22.
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  • At a robotics exhibition in Tokyo, Japan,  Samuel Setiawan (in white shirt) and two other Waseda University graduate students cautiously stand by during a lengthy prewalk checklist for WABIAN-RII. To their dismay, the robot initially has trouble negotiating the wooden floor, which is much springier than the concrete floor in the lab, where it had been programmed to walk. After some frantic reprogramming, Setiawan, the primary student researcher on the project, is able to make WABIAN walk its assigned path. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 38.
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  • In a years-long quest, students at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan are constantly tweaking the programming of WABIAN R-II in the hope of making the heavy, two-meter-tall machine walk as easily as a human being. WABIAN sways from side to side as it walks, but its builders are not discouraged by its imperfections: walking in a straight line, which humans can do without thinking, in fact requires coordinated movements of such fantastic complexity that researchers are pleased if their creations can walk at all. Indeed, researchers built the robot partly to help themselves understand the physics of locomotion. It took decades of work to bring WABIAN to its present state: its first ancestor was built in 1972. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 14.
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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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  • Nine-year-old Mio Ukita wants to be in the Olympics, so four or five times a week she bicycles to a neighborhood health club to do laps in the pool for 2 hours. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 54. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Kazuo Ukita reads his newspaper on the train taking him from Kodaira City to his workplace where he fills orders in a book and magazine warehouse. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Fresh vegetables prepared by Sayo Ukita. Green pepper, string beans, yellow squash, and daikon radish. Kodaira City, Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Sayo Ukita prepares fresh vegetables for dinner. Kodaira City, Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • The Ukita family two story house with van under the carport. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo, Japan, called Kodaira City. Material World Project.
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  • Portrait of Mio Ukita, 9. Kodaira City, Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Mio Ukita has her hair brushed by her mother Sayo before school. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Kazuo Ukita moves books around the warehouse at his job at a distribution company. Like many other salary men, when Kazuo Ukita leaves home to catch the train for his job, he dons a navy blue suit for the hour-long commute, but changes into company work clothes once he arrives. During the commute, nearly all the men are dressed the same. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 51. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Maya Ukita (left) and her mother, Sayo (red shirt) watch a neighbor boy jump rope while waiting for the bus to pick up the kids in the morning for their kindergarten class. Bus stop in Kodaira City, Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • The Ukita family's possessions displayed in front of their house before the family photograph for the Material World project. The family is situated on the two balconies of the upstairs bedrooms for this preliminary photograph. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo, Japan, called Kodaira City. Material World Project.
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  • Sayo Ukita cleans up the house while her daughters are at school and husband is at work. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Sayo Ukita shops for food and sundries in her Kodaira City neighborhood. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • The Ukita Family in front of their home with all of their possessions, Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 48-49.
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  • Octopus and fish for sale in the famed Tsujiki fish market and auction site, Tokyo, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Instant noodle display in a Japanese supermarket outside Tokyo, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Sayo Ukita shops daily in the market area near the train station closest to her family's home in Kodaira City, Japan, outside Tokyo. There are many small specialized shops and a few small to medium sized supermarkets. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A fish vendor in the market area near the train station of Kodaira City, outside Tokyo shows the "wing span" of a flying fish. The fish shop is one of Sayo Ukita's stops on her daily shopping bike ride from her home. As might be expected in an island nation, Japanese families eat a wide variety of seafood: fish, shellfish, and seaweed of all kinds. In any given week, the Ukitas will eat at least a dozen different kinds of fish and shellfish, and three varieties of seaweed. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) The Ukita family of Kodaira City, Japan, 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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  • A Japanese Colonel Sanders adorns a KFC in Tokyo, Japan. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94)
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  • Subway trains cross an overpass over rush hour evening traffic in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Multi-story golf driving range in Tokyo, Japan, at dusk.
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  • Shinkansen bullet trains in the train station in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Harajuku district Elvis dance troop members. Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Shinjuku high rise district.  Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Frozen tuna with numbers painted on them ready to be shipped in ice at the Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Retail public fish market near the Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A potential diner examines samples of plastic food in a restaurant window in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Plastic food display of sushi in a wholesale shop. Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A worker uses a soldering gun to glue together plastic cheese and meat in a plastic sandwich. Iwasaki Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Plastic food samples ready to be shipped in a Tokyo, Japan factory.
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  • A teenage girl with bright orange hair at Harajuku.  Tokyo, Japan.
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  • JAP_03_xs.A teenage girl with yellow spiked hair and white face at Harajuku.  Tokyo, Japan. .
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  • Jun Yajima, a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, makes a delivery on the busy streets of Tokyo, Japan.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dispatchers who are former bike messengers with lots of experience at T-Serv Bike Messenger service in Tokyo, Japan, talk to delivery messengers on the streets via radio from their control room. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, rides through a busy intersection in the Shibuya Ward (district) of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bike messengers attend an early morning meeting at T-Serv, a parcel and letter delivery service in Tokyo, Japan, where bike messenger Jun Yajima (with cap and T-serv green striped shirt) works. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) .
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  • Pedestrian, car, bus, and train traffic at a busy intersection in the Shinjuku District of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Pedestrian, car, bus, and train traffic at a busy intersection in the Shinjuku District of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • People walk on a busy street in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
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