In its seven-year run, the Aibo was the first mass-production cheap platform for robotics research.
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The car was originally built from aluminium, but became the first mass-production vehicle with a fibreglass body in the 1950s.
At the beginning of his mass-production assembly line, Ford was producing one complete, fully functional car every 90 minutes.
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Mass-production at Wolfsburg, it was reckoned, would make this car a salesroom winner.
The third way to cut costs is to apply mass-production techniques in new and unexpected areas such as health care.
Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.
More than almost any other functioning industrial site in Britain, Dagenham evokes a nostalgia for the age of mass-production and metal bashing.
Everywhere in the developed world, the decline of mass-production industries has put pressure on the roles and incomes of working-class and middle-class men.
Adding to Sharp's woes are reports that it has fallen behind in the mass-production of screens for Apple's new iPhone 5, expected to launch in September.
The company says that this investment is essential if it is to stick with its strategy of moving into small, mass-production cars partly to get young drivers into the Mercerdes-buying habit.
The chief task, entrusted this summer to the 30 engineers at work behind the cream-painted wall at Burnaby, is to turn Ballard from a research laboratory into a mass-production company.
The second world war spurred the mass-production of penicillin.
Freespace Sensor Modules are used by engineers to add inertial motion control to a product without having to learn about motion sensing or MEMS. These compact modules, the smallest of which is 9mm x 19mm x 2.5mm, are pre-calibrated for mass production, provide a well-documented API for interpreting motion, and provide data such as cursor position, linear acceleration, angular position, and angular velocity to enable the creation of novel applications.
He figures it would take a decade to iron out production problems and get hologram-capable screens into mass production.
According to the Sandia National Laboratory, these smaller reactors would be factory built and mass-assembled, with potential production of 50 a year.
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Such a capability would allow us to hold at risk some of the 10, 000 concealed and hardened command-and-control bunkers, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) production and storage facilities and other buried high-value targets that have been built by potential adversaries.
Mass production of its 20nm-class 64Gb 3-bit NAND designed on advanced toggle NAND architecture is anticipated for early next year.
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The company will launch its mass production of the 17-inch model at it's Busan plant, producing some 150, 000 monitors a month, and will start producing the 19-inch models through some existing computer monitor production lines over the next year.
Much like the run-up to the previous flagship product launch, Qualcomm-backed Xiaomi has just announced that it'll be selling a small batch of pre-production second-gen Xiaomi Phones, in the hopes to get some keen users to perform last-minute checks before mass production.
Tesla battery packs power the Roadster, the only highway-capable EV currently in mass production.
Along with the distinctive flask-shaped bottle, it all makes for an appearance of down-home craftmanship rather than mass production.
When it comes to a cure, Miss Zuboff and Mr Maxmin see the answer partly in the structure of corporations, which they regard as too narcissistic, too stuck in old concepts of mass production, even too male-dominated (real men, it seems, won't let the customer come first).
The research team is currently investigating a laser lift-off technology to facilitate the mass production of flexible LIBs and 3D stacking structures to enhance charge density of batteries.
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Already, 3D printing has been refined to the point where digital models can be duplicated into physical prototypes or production parts that closely resemble mass-produced products in looks and function.
Don't get too excited, however, sources aren't sure the if the device will go into mass production, and Microsoft is expectantly tight-lipped about the rumor.
Just a day after Samsung unveiled the smartphone as its inaugural Exynos 5 Octa device, the company has confirmed that the not-really-eight-core ARM processor should be in mass production during the second quarter of the year, or between April and June.
As other Asian nations become efficient at mass manufacturing, China must embrace research and high-technology production to transform its economy as South Korea and Japan once did.
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The commercial mass production of advanced electronic systems has made high-quality electronic devices exceedingly affordable, and slashed defense budgets force the U.S. military to look for cost savings wherever possible.
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