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  • Vendors sell toys, trinkets, snacks,and refreshments in front of the cathedral in the main plaza in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
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  • A group of South African village children play with a home made toy bus, fashioned out of scrap wire. Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Kiosk selling toy guns, flags, etc. in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia.
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  • A group of South African village children play with a home made toy bus, ingeniously fashioned out of scrap wire. Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Hand painted nesting dolls, Moscow, Russia.
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  • Thirteen-year-old Venda youth, Azwifarwi, with his homemade Mercedes crafted of scrap wire, foam rubber and wood in order to push and steer around his village, Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Brianna Fernandez in her bedroom in her home in San Antonio, Texas. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Melanson family boys at home after school in their living room in Iqualuit, Canada. Iqaluit, with a population of 6,000, is the largest community in Nunavut as well as the capital city. It is located in the southeast part of Baffin Island. Formerly known as Frobisher Bay, the town is at the mouth of the bay of that name, overlooking Koojesse Inlet. "Iqaluit" means 'place of many fish'. Canada. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Two-story art car at sunrise at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Sex fair, Erotica 2000. Two young women examining penis dildos. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • Vesterbro district porn shop. Vesterbro is the red light district of Copenhagen. Denmark.
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  • Family in their living room, Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Baby dolls, Cuernavaca, Morelos,  Mexico.
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  • Christ under plastic and other Jesus paraphernalia, Cuernavaca, Morelos,  Mexico.
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  • Baby Jesus dolls, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • Hand painted nesting dolls, Moscow, Russia.
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  • Sadam Hussein nesting dolls.
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  • Thirteen-year-old Venda youth, Azwifarwi, with his homemade Mercedes crafted ingeniously and artistically out of scrap wire, foam rubber and wood in order to push and steer around his village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 140,141)
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  • Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Although food stalls have returned to the Ciglane market parts of the Olympic park behind it have become a burial ground for siege victims. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 49). This image is featured alongside the Dudo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Baby It's skin partially removed to reveal its inner workings, this prototype robot baby can mimic the facial expressions of a human infant by changing the contours of its lifelike rubber face. Called BIT, for Baby IT, the mechanical tot is yet more proof that much robotic research will see its first commercial application in the toy and entertainment industry. My Real Baby, the market version of BIT, is scheduled to debut in US stores in late 2000; it is a collaboration between Hasbro, the US toy giant, and iRobot, a small company started by MIT researcher Rodney Brooks.  Somerville, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 229.
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  • Shelves stacked with My Real Baby in the development labs at the Somerville, Massachusetts firm iRobot. The doll is a collaboration between iRobot and toy giant Hasbro. My Real Baby has a complex innerworkings benteath its soft skin including gears, servos, and an 8-bit processor, all to give the robotic doll a host of expressions and movement.
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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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  • Kismet is a complex autonomous, stationary robot developed by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, at the time of this image a doctoral studies student at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab under the direction of Rod Brooks. Breazeal's immediate goal for Kismet is to replicate and possibly recognize human emotional states as exhibited in facial expressions. Kismet's eyelids, eyebrows, ears, mouth, and lips are all able to move independently to generate different expressions of emotional states. In this photograph, Cynthia poses with Kismet and "King Louie", a toy often used to stimulate the robot.
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  • "Baby It" is the prototype for My Real Baby, the most sophisticated robot doll yet made. According to a press release, it is only the "first born" in a series of dolls created from the union of its parent companies, toy giant Hasbro and iRobot, a small Massachusetts robotics firm. Somerville, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 12-13.
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  • After cutting off half the face of BIT, a prototype robotic doll, photographer Peter Menzel is himself photographed  by assistant Alex Wright at the headquarters of the toy's designer, iRobot of Somerville, Massachusetts. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 19.
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  • Kismet is a complex autonomous robot developed by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, at the time of this image a doctoral studies student at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab under the direction of Rod Brooks. Breazeal's immediate goal for Kismet is to replicate and possibly recognize human emotional states as exhibited in facial expressions. Breazeal has located the most important variables in human facial expressions and has mechanically transferred these points of expression to a robotic face. Kismet's eyelids, eyebrows, ears, mouth, and lips are all able to move independently to generate different expressions of emotional states.
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  • Alien figures (3" tall figure sold as "The Roswell Alien" by Shadowbox Collectibles, Inc.) tour the area around the storage silos by the railroad tracks, downtown Roswell, New Mexico. The figures are actually sitting on the dashboard of the photographer's rental car. (1997)
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  • Passersby amble past the friendly robot giant at the doorway of FAO Schwarz in Orlando, Florida. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 1.
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  • Many Japanese roboticists were inspired as a child by Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), a popular Japanese cartoon about a futuristic robot boy who helps human beings (here, it is a 15-centimeter Astro Boy action figure). Astro Boy, drawn in the 1950's, will soon be the star of a major motion picture. In the story line, his birthdate is in April of 2003. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 197.
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  • Lopes-Furtado family from Cabo Verde living in Luxembourg shopping for one week's worth of food at an Auchan super market across the border in France near their home. Watching Lionel on an amusement ride at the shopping center. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • USA_SFOL_14_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_13_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • Alien figures (3-inch tall figurines sold as "The Roswell Alien" by Shadowbox Collectibles) survey the downtown Roswell, area for parking spaces. The figures are actually sitting on the dashboard of the photographer's rental car. Roswell, New Mexico. (1997).
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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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  • Robot designer Yoshihiro Fujita stares into the electronic eyes of R100, his personal-assistant robot. The robot can recognize faces, identify a few hundred words of Japanese, and obey simple commands, but its most important job, Fujita says, is to help families keep in touch. If Mom at work wants to remind Junior at home to study, she can E-mail the robot, which will deliver the message verbally. To take the sting out of the command, the robot can sing and dance, a charming feature that is one reason NEC is inching toward commercializing the project. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page166-167.
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  • The Castillo Balderas family of Guadalajara, Mexico, outside their home with all of their possessions. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 144-145.
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  • The Castillo Balderas family of Guadalajara, Mexico, outside their home with all of their possessions. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 144-145. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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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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  • Surrounded by his robot toys and sculptures, Clayton Bailey of Port Costa, California, is living proof that not everyone feels threatened by the prospect of being surrounded by mechanical human beings. In the studio behind his home, Bailey stands among the large robots he has sculpted since retiring as a professor of art from California State University, Hayward. He and his wife, Betty, have collected robot and space toys for the past 30 years. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 230-231.
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  • PER.meb.18.xxs.Fredi Molo Cruz toys with waykjuiro worms. Ocra Katunki, Peru. (pages 154,155)
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  • Wedged into her small, cluttered workspace in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, MA., researcher Cynthia Breazeal holds a mirror to Kismet, the robot head she has been working on for two years. The cameras behind Kismet's big blue eyes send data to its computer, which has software allowing the robot to detect people and bright toys visually. In addition, the software recognizes people by vocal affect. Then, following its programming, it reacts, twisting its features in a comically exaggerated display of emotion. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 66.
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  • Toy World store at GUMs Department Store in Red Square, Moscow, USSR. 1987.
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  • As a preadolescent Buddhist monk walks through a market with two other young monk friends in the southern province of Yunnan; he proudly displays his fake pager; a coveted toy from "Motorora; Ching Menghan Sunday Market; Yunnan; China. (Man Eating Bugs page 84; 85)
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  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice was photographed by the schoolyard fence near where he was struck by lightning. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
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  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
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  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • Champs Elysees. Father crosses the street with his two young children. His son holds a toy gun. Paris, France.
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  • Robosaurus prowls the parking lot of a Las Vegas, NM, casino, showing off its ability to breathe fire and crush cars in its mighty claws. The machine can be rented as a destructive attraction for car and air shows. Like a huge transformer toy, Robosaurus folds itself into a tractor trailer that is pulled by a large truck. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, pages 10-11.
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  • A family looks at dolls in a toy shop in Cairo, Egypt.
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