Their base is a light industrial building just inside the Moscow ring road, and a passenger lift is only now being installed.
The robots currently are being assembled at QBotix headquarters in a non-descript building in a light industrial area of Menlo Park.
"I'm not going to light up a whole building by myself, " she said.
It's an easier argument to have, than stepping back, shining a harsh light, and building the whole thing over, the right way.
"Passive renewable energy" measures, such as using natural ventilation to cool a building and spacing windows to maximize the sun's light, are other ways to slash a building's electric bill.
Wolinsky, who now runs the photo advice site PixBoomBa.com, tends to shoot city buildings when the natural light in the sky equals the light inside a building (usually around dusk, just as evening lights are turned on).
This book, which describes the descendants of a civilisation that has converted the material in its planets into a giant ringlike structure around its sun, was inspired by Freeman Dyson's idea that a truly technologically advanced species would endeavour to capture as much light as possible by building a spherical shell around its central star.
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The UK Government, which has recently given the green light to a new nuclear building program, won't have the first new ones online before 2017.
It should also be seen as a confidence-building indication in light of the report that billionaire George Soros has been selling his gold position.
Rather, the company should expose and even shine a light on the whole conversation, building trust and loyalty among customers through conversations that occur outside the walls of the company itself, not inside private walled-off forums.
We're actually hearing that they got a green light to do a 500, 000-square-foot addition on the building.
La Vitrine, a cultural information and last minute ticket booth, currently has a playful interactive light and video installation by Moment Factory, that will move to a new building, scheduled to open this autumn.
The company has since been focused on raising money to market its flexible and light-weight panels and building a factory to produce them.
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Optical correlators, meanwhile, work by encoding images on to a beam of light and, using a special lens, transforming them into their Fourier components building-blocks that encode the thickness and direction of lines in the image, but not their position.
It's far easier for a CEO to think about building up the business when he or she can actually see a sliver of light on the horizon.
Highlighted in a feature report in China Daily on Wednesday, a California LED light company called Seesmart said it was building factories in California and Illinois, instead of expanding their presence in China.
The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.
The state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system from PCK is unique to Empire State Building and allows customized light capabilities from a palette of over 16 million colors in limitless combinations along with effects previously not possible such as ripples, cross-fades, sparkles, chasers, sweeps, strobes and bursts.
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Then, reaching the last room, bathed in unexpected natural light, Ms Horn points through the window to a restored building outside, which used to lie behind the wall.
Yet a final contrast of forms, between the light thinness of the building proper and the solid three-dimensionality of the tower, hints of the full-blown Greek-revival style of the coming generation.
Researchers have steadily overcome such challenges to build a series of building blocks from silicon, including components that modulate pulses of light from lasers to encode data and detect such signals.
Two of the best are " Ice Lights", a light-installation at Vancouver City Hall that looks like ice framing the historic building, and " The Birds", a pair of larger-than-life bird sculptures that once stood sentry at the site of the Olympic Village and now roost at the Southeast False Creek Plaza.
It hasn't been just new projects that are making headlines: In November, even the Empire State Building got a makeover, when the owners installed a new LED light system whose millions of colors can ripple, cross-fade, strobe and burst in time to the tunes of Alicia Keys or a special New Year's show.
California-based Nest Labs, founded by two former Apple executives, produces a thermostat capable of learning user behaviour and working out when a building is occupied or not, using temperature, humidity, activity and light sensors.
The handsome, earthy building is superb, with glorious, changing, aqueous light diffused through a continuous concrete "web" in most of the second floor exhibition spaces.
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However, in October the Ministry of Culture gave the green light for the Director of Municipality to issue a permit for the destruction of the Medawar Building.
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Like its cousins radar and sonar, lidar (light detection and ranging), works by broadcasting electromagnetic waves towards a target and then building up a picture from the reflection.
"Their relative position versus Nvidia has improved compared to six months ago, " says Dean McCarron, president of chip tracker Mercury Research. amd is also building ati's graphics capabilities into a new CPU that may see the light of day in the second half of 2009.
In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
The building has nine bays, of which the three central ones admit light to a two-story reception area.
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