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ZMP nuvo robots.


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 has come up with a bipedal bipedal adjective Capable of locomotion on 2 feet  robot called "nuvo." Standing at 39cm and weighing 2.5kg, the nuvo guy is ready to go to new institutional or industrial homes right now for a cool [yen]3 million, but ZMP plans to make it available to the great unwashed for about a half million yen. Using the company's "Advanced Media" voice recognition engine, nuvo will respond to direct voice input, or can even be controlled via a FOMA See i-Mode.  mobile phone. Nuvo runs for about half an hour on its rechargeable re·charge  
tr.v. re·charged, re·charg·ing, re·charg·es
To charge again, especially to reenergize a storage battery.



re
 lithium batteries and, in case you were wondering, the name "nuvo" is a play on the French word "nouveau."

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Publication:Japan Inc.
Date:May 1, 2004
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