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- Grade Level: Senior High (10-12)-Adult
- Subjects: Design and Technology, Science and Nature
- Produced By: Exploration Production Inc.
- Year: 2013
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Running Time: 4m 3s
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Getting around Tokyo's sidewalks just got easier for the elderly and disabled with Hitachi's self-driven single-passenger vehicle.
Alt E-Man
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Inventor Lucien Gambarota is obsessed with finding simple ways to harness energy.
BeatOven
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Inventor and Artist Viktor Jan plays with his food to create music.
Elephant Prosthetics
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
The world's only elephant hospital in Thailand fits prosthetic legs to elephants who lost their limbs to land mines.
Smart Trashcan
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Minoru Kurata invented the world's first trashcan that can track and catch your trash.
Swumanoid
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology built this humanoid robot to study the mechanics of swimming.
Kenshiro
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Students at he University of Tokyo's JSK Lab built the world's most anatomically correct robot, complete with 160 "muscles" and an almost complete…
Ford C-Max Energi
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Gil Portalatin, Chief Program Engineer at Ford Motor Company, takes us for a ride in Ford's latest plug-in hybrid car.
Ford's Flexible Plant
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Daryl Sykes takes us on a tour of the world's most flexible manufacturing facility. The assembly line at this Ford automotive plant has the…
Panda Bamboo
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
We take a look at how the Memphis Zoo helps the Toronto Zoo meet the dietary demands of two very fussy giant pandas, Da Mao and Er Shun.
Riskin's Business: Rowing
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Dan visits rowing coach John Keogh at Fanshawe Lake to see how the speed of a boat changes with the number of rowers.
Blabdroid
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Alexander Reben built an adorable baby robot to explore the relationship between humans and machines.
Dangerous Crossing
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Ultra-marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel is training to swim from Cuba to Florida - a distance of 170 kilometers - without stopping.
Lightning Insulators
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2013
Australia's largest high-voltage laboratory uses some extremely high-voltage generators to test insulators that protect high-power lines from…
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