Toyota zeroed in on 174 key components, such as air bags, fuel pumps and brake systems.

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Previous attempts to create such a robot have used gears and air-powered or pneumatic pumps.

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The system also pumps in more air every 30 seconds for three minutes, just in case debris or a branch punctures a hole in the bag.

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And yet, despite these obviously contradictory impulses, the GOP is ready to shut down the EPA because the agency dared to require power plants to reduce the amount of mercury it pumps into the air.

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The three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps - that's something I've never said on the air before - three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps are now selling like hotcakes on at least one online shoe site.

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One is exhaust gas recirculation, which pumps cooled exhaust back into the engine air intake, lowering the combustion temperature and reducing NOx formation.

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Grizzled, his peculiar aviator glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended the household machinery, the air-conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, and pumps, like an engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer in an Atlantic gale.

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Electricity from CSP helps power pumps bringing seawater to the site where it is used to condition air inside the greenhouse.

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The world pumps on average 2.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the air every second for a total of 38.2 billion tons in 2011, according international calculations published in a scientific journal in December.

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