Tucked away in a sleepy one-story office complex in Mountain View, California, Trevor Blackwell is trying to get a robot to walk.
He's obviously quite a busy person so maybe he could get off the train a stop earlier on the way to work or he may be able to get away for a lunch-time walk rather than sitting at his desk.
For example, engineers working on a transmission or engine can simply walk down a hallway to get a question answered as opposed to calling someone in a different location and time zone, Winegarden said.
"You can't just take a walk and get away from somebody, " Kanas said.
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"By late next year I'm hoping to get this to walk into a kitchen and make a cheese sandwich, " he says.
If the line is long, some airports have other checkpoints that may be faster, even after a walk to get there.
Famously, author and investing legend Burton Malkiel suggested in A Random Walk Down Wall Street that you could get monkeys to toss darts at the financial listings in a newspaper and do just as well as a pro stock picker.
These Icons that you saw when you were a child dancing, you get to walk in and see them every day.
He recalls what happened during a recent morning walk to get coffee.
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It has tennis shoes, socks, deodorant and perfume for hot days when she needs to get out of the office and take a walk.
"I still get a lump in my throat when I walk into the drawing room, come down the steps into the drawing room, " he says.
If you're living in a country where you have to walk for several hours or even a day to get to a clinic it's extremely unlikely you would bother to make the return trip a week later to get the result of a check-up.
"I went for a good, long walk to get myself in the right frame of mind for Tuesday, " he told BBC Radio Cumbria.
She also appeared to prod Mr Lansley, who was forced to walk around her to get to a gate to enter Downing Street.
The company is closing off a skybridge connecting the parking garage to the office building, so workers will have to walk a longer route to get to the office, passing pedestrians along the way.
And I think it's a sad position, because those folks don't accept the fact that they have as much a right to be able to walk to the store to get that quart of milk without getting stopped, as if they lived in a different community.
She has also tried hiring a fetching woman to stroll along the sidewalk in front of the restaurant and give away cups of cold borscht, a gesture geared to attract walk-in business to a restaurant where it was once impossible to get a reservation.
You have to get up out of your chair, walk down a hallway and talk to someone.
Jordan, who has spent more than two decades coaching in the NBA and been a head coach three times, hasn't had much of a chance to walk around campus and get acquainted with student body and the faculty.
She also says to get in the habit of taking a brisk five-minute walk every hour at the office.
Mr Carpenter said he knew of similar cases elsewhere in the UK where mourners had been forced to get out and walk every time their funeral vehicle negotiated a speed hump.
If you get to the Getty Villa, save a few minutes to walk slowly around this proud hero, relishing the curving waterfall of pleats that define the first totally convincing human being created by an artist.
"Pregnant women are recommended to get a haemoglobin test at least once in every trimester of their pregnancy but it is inconvenient for a women to walk to the nearest primary healthcare centre that could more than 5km away, " he said.
And a third group will walk faster than you and get ahead of you.
Once you open your doors, get ready for your staff to walk out through them at a moment's notice.
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