尽管在他被广泛翻译的著作《马可波罗历险记》里他很少提到自己，马可仍被想象成为一个博学的探险者，被画在意大利热那亚的一副镶嵌画上。
Though he revealed little of himself in his widely translated book, The Description of the World, Marco is idealized as a explorer on a mosaic in Genoa, Italy, pictured here.
欧盟资助的一项研究中，意大利热那亚大学的亚历山德罗•波塔罗设计出一种微小型角质蛋白刷毛，他仿照了鸟身上叫做覆羽那种最小的羽毛。
In research funded by the European Union, Alessandro Bottaro of the University of Genoa in Italy has devised small keratin bristles that mimic the smallest type of bird feathers, known as coverts.
“受到一个通用平台限制的感觉对人们是有用的，”热那亚意大利技术研究院的机器人技术研究员Giorgio Metta说。
"It's useful to have people in a sense constrained by a common platform," says Giorgio Metta, a robotics researcher at the Italian Insitute of Technology in Genoa.
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