According to the staff working at the hotel's gym, the swimming pool is open to hotel guests and a limited number of health club members.

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Working with New York stress-management consultant Judy Martin, she began exercising daily and practicing meditation while walking or swimming.

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Current applications for Superbot are being developed with space exploration in mind, but Shen said the technology could be usefully applied in any environment dangerous to humans such as for search and rescue tasks in mines or underwater -- although the laboratory is still working on a morphing robot capable of swimming.

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