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This week’s news brings us Kiyomori, a two-legged robot with a great website, born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. It’s famous for the revolutionary ability to rotate its pelvis as it walks, which gives it a much more natural walking style, allowing it to stretch its knees. Anyway, the latest demonstration of this technology was to have the robot (dressed, of course, in full regal “kachuu” armor and crazy glowing red eyes) visit Munakata Shrine, just north of Fukuoka City, to pray. Pretty amazing and wonderfully strange application of technology…