Trower's second stage of robotic development includes simple, single-purpose robotic devices like the Roomba or Looj, along with toy robots like WowWee's Robosapien or Lego Mindstorms, a set of programmable robot-building pieces.

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While China is already the second-largest economy in the world, it is still in an embryonic stage of development.

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