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Dominatrix Ryoko Naruse is pleased by DPJ’s plan
DPJ’s emission goals seen leading to carbon tax
The new government’s pledge to accelerate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions may lead to higher subsidies for makers of solar cells, including Sharp Corp. and Kyocera Corp., while forcing utilities to pay premiums for solar power generated by consumers.
The Democratic Party [...]
The structural analysis of myth, both at the level of objectives and also at the level of analysis, had a profound impact on mythological studies in Japan. Studies on Japanese Myths (Nihon shinwa no kenkyu), a seminal work by Matsumoto Nobuhiro, who studied under Marcel Mauss in the [...]
Medusa Carbon Kabu Robo – Shangri-La
Human managers may no longer be deemed necessary
Online brokerage Monex Inc. has begun selling investment trusts managed by a robot (“Kabu Robo” = stock robots), providing mechanical investment decisions aimed at eliminating the indecisiveness that can occur in human trading.
The Kabu Robo are programmed with price movement data from [...]
When Dreams Come True
Patrick Galbraith, ethnographer at the University of Tokyo, and author of The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider’s Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan :
Gundam is a flashpoint in otaku. These guys were so interested in this world that they started making their own encyclopaedias, their own model figures, their own world [...]
The Politics of Hysteria
There’s still hysteria to be spread for the purpose of 1) grabbing more powers for government due to the appearance of an extraordinary crisis that is sweeping America and the world, and, even more so, 2) there is still billions to be made for the vaccine producers in the Big Government-Big Pharma [...]
Motoman SDA10 Okonomiyaki Cooking Robot
–>>Video @ Reuters
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–>>Video @ Mainichi
During the “Robot Food Park” demonstration, Okonomiyaki Robot, developed by Osaka-based Toyo Riki Co., boasted its prowess in cooking “okonomiyaki” — Osaka’s trademark meat, vegetable and seafood pancake.
The robot, about the size of a human, skillfully uses its two arms to mix the dough, oil up a [...]
Der grüne Weg zu Heimatverbundenheit und Natur-Religiosität
Great Green Plans
GAZING down from a helicopter at a huge garbage dump in the middle of Tokyo Bay, architect Tadao Ando had an idea that became part of the city’s Olympic dream – to create a vast new ‘Sea Forest’.
As part of the green Games plan, Tokyo Governor Shintaro [...]
Military robots
Military robots are autonomous or remote-controlled devices designed for military applications. Broadly defined, military robots date back to World War II and the Cold War in the form of the German Goliath tracked mines and the Soviet Teletanks
MAARS / Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System
SW: In what kind of combat scenarios will the MAARS be [...]
Crowd control
Crowd control is the controlling of a crowd, to prevent the outbreak of disorder and prevention of possible rioting.
ASIMO equipped with Brain Machine Interface (BMI) device
See: Honda Research Institute’s Long Version Video Demonstration (3′32”)
See : Honda unveils helmet that lets wearer control a robot by thought alone, The Guardian, 31 March 2009
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