Monday,
January 12, 2004
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Visitors
use computers at an exhibition in Guangzhou, the capital of China’s southern province of Guangdong. The US corporations are picking up the pace in shifting well-paid technology jobs to India, China and other low-cost centres, but they are keeping quiet for fear of a backlash, industry professionals say.
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ASIMO, Honda’s intelligent humanoid robot, shows his realistic movements during press days at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. Using new advanced motion technology, ASIMO not only walks forward and backward, but also turns sideways, climbs up and down stairs and turns corners.
NEC Corp.’s robot, the egg-shaped PaPeRo can remember visitors’ faces, greet visitors at the door, and monitor the e-mails can interpret Japanese into English or English into Japanese by using a newly developed compact and high-speed voice and speech-recognition software.
 A perforated tiny cube capable of containing
electromagnetic waves or light in its hollowed area is displayed in Tokyo. The 27 x 27 mm cube, made of epoxy resin mixed with fine-grained titanium oxide, was
developed by a group of scientists, headed by Prof. Mitsuo Takeda of Shinshu University and Prof. Yoshinari Miyamoto of Osaka University.
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