From the Japanese automobile maker Honda, the ASIMO robot was an in-house project throughout the 2000s, and was taller than the QRIO by two feet and weighed more than three times more.

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It also scores points for being designed to earn Platinum LEED certification, with features like a rainwater-harvesting project and in-house water treatment plant to ensure 100 percent recycling of water.

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The company's new in-house system can track every piece of HP hardware and project its sales potential from a factory in Thailand to a store in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Then we moved into the screening room, where he only reinforced the impression by giving his attractive Soho House audience, sprawled out in typical movie-mogul loungers, a bit of the project's history.

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