The EcoBot II uses human sewage as bait to catch the insects.

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Japanese ambassador Keiichi Hayashi told those present the stone was a "symbol of human suffering during World War II and the ongoing quest for peace".

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World War II simply burned up untold quantities of every resource, human, mineral, and environmental.

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Bishop Elio Sgreccia, head of the John Paul II Institute for Bioethics at Rome's Gemelli hospital, said human cloning raised profoundly disturbing ethical issues.

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This allows the MAYA-II to play a complete game of Tic-Tac-Toe against a human opponent, and apparently nearly always win.

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Melhuish, who is director of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab at the UWE, told CNN that the EcoBot II was a result of a quest for an intelligent robot that could function without human supervision.

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The Human Security Centre of the University of British Columbia has been keeping track of armed conflicts since World War II.

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