Honda Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Hiroyuki Yoshino, right, bows to a trio of ASIMO robots following his year-end press conference in Tokyo . Yoshino said the auto maker would start renting out the human-like robot in the Japanese market, beginning fall 2001
The characters of Vodafone are installed and illuminated for the first time on the top of the former Mannesmann headquarters in Duesseldorf. The German firm Mannesmann AG was taken over by Vodafone earlier this year.