Early last year Honda demonstrated how their robot Asimo could lift an arm or a leg through signals sent wirelessly from a system operated by a user with an EEG cap.

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The 1998 games in France gave the nation a shot in the arm that helped lift the nation out of its economic doldrums at the time.

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His comments, made at the State Department, come as Britain and France urge the European Union to lift the weapons embargo in order to arm moderate Syrian rebels.

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Using his right arm only, he proceeded to lift a two-hundred-and-fifty-five-pound circus dumbbell above his head five times.

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While each arm only weighs about 16 pounds, it can lift up to 50 pounds.

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Strauch says that for every successful gastric bypass patient, up to six procedures may be required to deal with the aftereffects, including two upper arm lifts, two thigh lifts, an abdominal lift and facial surgery.

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Martin's left arm, leaving it so weak he couldn't lift a soda can.

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The AIRarm prototype is essentially a Packbot whose metal arm's been replaced with an inflatable version able to lift four times its own half-pound weight.

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