At the moment most of the power lies a short walk away across the European quarter in Brussels, at the headquarters of the European Council.

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Resembling a small child wearing an astronaut outfit with a backpack (for the battery power source), the ASIMO could walk on two feet at speeds at over three miles per hour.

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The so-called Ekso, a mechanical skeleton created by California-based company Ekso Bionics, is designed to give paraplegics the power to walk unaided.

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