Using millimeter wave technology, which the TSA says emits 10, 000 times less radio frequency than a cell phone, the machine scans a traveler and a robotic image is generated that allows security personnel to detect potential threats -- and, some fear, more -- beneath a person's clothes.

CNN: Airport security bares all, or does it?

The company, which employs four full-time and one part-time staff, was founded in 1999 and already supplies their robotic instruments to The Anthony Nolan Trust, the United Kingdom's largest stem cell register.

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His 100, 000 cell samples need freezers, air conditioners (and backups for both), robotic handlers, repairmen, alarms--and electricity for it all.

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