Monday, 30 September 2013

A Cruise on the S.S. Brainstorm

But it wasn’t in a lab. César Harada and Gabriella Levine, whiz kids from opposite sides of the globe, were crammed under the stairwell of this decommissioned cruise ship, hunched over bins of batteries and wires.
Nor did it look like a robot. Five feet long and shaped like a skeletal eel, the Protei is a waterborne drone Mr. Harada invented to clean up oil spills. The 30-year-old French-Japanese inventor held it up. “Generation 10.5,” he said, looking on the verge of exhaustion. He and

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