But his hands are fully functional, his legs are functional and he has 23 degrees of freedom.
The secret of Choset and his team's designs is in the degrees of freedom their robots have.
In the lab, the contraption has seven degrees of freedom, but it was reduced to five when we took it for a spin.
That's a lot of fast number-crunching: Microsoft figures there are something like 10 to the 23rd power "degrees of freedom, " or possible positions, for a human body.
States that reject any federal expansion to their Medicaid budgets may pursue fuller employment rates with greater degrees of freedom, as drags to productivity are lessened.
The pair of motors, gearboxes and pulleys would then be used to provide assistance in two degrees of freedom, to help stroke victims slowly build back up their strength.
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In the end, we may count WCIT as the beginning of a devolution that ultimately leads to multiple Internets, with varying degrees of freedom of speech and other human rights respected.
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The joints in its fingers, thumb and wrist provide 24 degrees of freedom (a degree of freedom is the ability of one part of a system to move independently of the others in a particular way, as a ship may yaw, pitch or roll).
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Hardware controls include power, selection and volume up and down, while the smartglasses also gauge 3-degrees of freedom through head-tracking, alongside an integrated compass and GPS. The built-in camera is capable of 1080p video in 16:9 aspect ratio, although it'll be able to capture stills too.
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Worn over the legs with a harness that reaches up the back and around the shoulders, X1 has 10 degrees of freedom, or joints -- four motorized joints at the hips and the knees, and six passive joints that allow for sidestepping, turning and pointing, and flexing a foot.
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He's been through a few of these. (Laughter.) He's won the Bronze Star, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, honorary degrees from 34 colleges and universities, and more.
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Armed with their material comforts, university degrees and native knowledge of the ways of democracy and the habits of freedom, these men chose to become jihadists.
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There's degrees and there's got to be a halfway house between freedom of the press and freedom of speech, and the right to a person's private life and privacy.
Along the way, Shriver earned worldwide accolades and awards, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame's Founder's Award and nine honorary degrees.
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