Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, Rapyuta would be the place they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.

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In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall. (As with many of his objects, Mr. Davis said he got it in a barter deal, trading it with the publisher of a popular book series for the use of his music.) At the center of the home is a 44-foot-tall, four-sided fireplace.

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The Section of Museum and Cultural Objects of UNESCO is developing two pilot installations which deal with remembering, historicizing and rediscovering the relationships that have existed between different civilizations and cultures within the Mediterranean and Nile basins.

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In addition, modern applications frequently deal with unstructured data: blog posts, web pages, voice transcripts, and other data objects that are essentially text.

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