Previous attempts to create such a robot have used gears and air-powered or pneumatic pumps.
In 1845, the first pneumatic tires were patented by British civil engineer Robert Thompson.
The wide-body, twin-engine jet relies on a complex network of electrical systems rather than traditional pneumatic systems.
Legend tells of fabulous ancient and medieval clockwork creatures, from pneumatic songbirds to golden knights guarding priceless treasure.
The pair in question were neither voluptuous nor pneumatic by the standards of silicone inflation that came later.
Karlung takes special pleasure in pointing out that the server modules will even have Star Trek-style pneumatic sliding doors.
In fact, U.S. authorities believe a pneumatic cannon fired each canister 500 feet over the Colorado River from Mexico.
Even Croft's famously pneumatic body has been toned down to something more realistic.
It would rely more on electricity to run its systems than existing planes, which used hydraulic and pneumatic power.
Air is injected into the bubble rows by a squeaky pneumatic pump, then the sheets are heat-sealed on one edge.
An employee, a University of Florida archeology student, was using a pneumatic tool to clean a chunk of Wyoming stegosaurus.
Cycling's innovations, including spokes, pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, steel tubing and differential gears, were soon borrowed by the motor industry.
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K-Tron began life in 1949 as a maker of pneumatic scales, moving a couple of decades later into digitally controlled feeders.
Most spending will go to information technology, in an era when many states still run Medicaid using paper forms and pneumatic tubes.
Cycling did not appeal to the masses until the introduction of the pneumatic safety bicycle with a chain and sprocket drive (the prototype of the modern design).
Damage to juvenile attention-spans caused by such game stars as Sonic, a hyperactive blue hedgehog, and the pneumatic Lara Croft, does not fully explain Lego's difficulties, however.
His bikes are equipped with a Rigidaire pneumatic seat suspension system developed by Cox that absorbs vibrations using a small compressor and two air shocks under the seat.
Hillenbrand, a casket manufacturing business, acquired K-Tron, a pneumatic equipment company, in anticipation that the death-related services industry will not see much growth in the next few years.
The 787, the first jetliner made from a majority of lightweight carbon fiber composites, eliminates hot, heavy and hard-to-maintain pneumatic systems that power key parts of the jet.
Envisioned as an affordable housing solution, each Oil Silo Home is divided into three units that are accessible via a central pneumatic elevator or exterior walkway that wraps around each silo.
Microsoft's other software, including its Office 97 suite, does not even make the top-20 list, outsold by the likes of racing games, Tomb Raider's pneumatic Lara Croft, and the perennial best-seller, Myst.
Their marshmallow bodies get a coat of colored sugar, a pneumatic gun affixes their wax eyes, and finally they're dropped into a cardboard cradle, tucked in with cellophane, and shipped out to the world.
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