Lawler, Metzger, Keeney and Logan served as regulatory counsel, and Polsinelli Shughart PC served as Kansas counsel.

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Almost everybody does brainstorming wrong, Ralph Keeney says, and turns it into an enormous waste of time.

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"With running - we are trying to get Asimo to stay upright, to react quickly, " says Mr Keeney.

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So what does Mr Keeney make of the growing trend of consumer robotics?

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Instead of packing executives into a conference room and brainstorming solutions, Keeney met for one hour each with 19 top people, including the CEO.

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"Going into that dry period already dry is not looking good, " said Jim Keeney, weather program manager for the National Weather Service in Kansas City.

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Honda will not reveal how much it has spent developing the robot but Mr Keeney said it was considerably less than is spent on developing a prototype vehicle.

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Amazingly, some of those same people -- including Spurgeon Keeney , president of the Arms Control Association and Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes , a former U.S. Arms Control Agency lawyer, who are quoted in today's Washington Post -- are sharply critical of even these modest efforts to understand and begin to address the threat that they purport to regard as a serious one (at least when opposing missile defenses).

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