[...] for the majority of the economy, a CIO demonstrates a desperate attempt to appear innovative. Silicon Valley Sleuth To my mind this is a bit too strikingly worded but the quintessence is important: just installing a CIO has nothing to do with innovation. A professionally manged IT (in-house or out-sourced) should be the basis [...]

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Engineers at the University of Tokyo built a robot that can leap like a frog. They describe it as follows: Mowgli’s artificial musculoskeletal system consists of six McKibben pneumatic muscle actuators including bi-articular muscle and two legs with hip, knee, and ankle joints. Mowgli can reach jump heights of more than 50% of its body [...]

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