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Submission + - Japan Plans Moon Base built by Robots for Robots (popsci.com)

An anonymous reader writes: These ARE the droids we've been looking for. The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has plans to build a base on the Moon by 2020. Not for humans, but for robots, and built by robots, too. A panel authorized by Japan's prime minister has drawn up preliminary plans of how humanoid and rover robots will begin surveying the moon by 2015, and then begin construction of a base near the south pole of the moon. The robots and the base will run on solar power, with total costs about $2.2 billion USD, according to the panel chaired by Waseda University President Katsuhiko Shirai.
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Submission + - Record-Breaking EV Goes 623 Miles on Single Charge (inhabitat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Japanese Electric Vehicle Club has just earned one of the most coveted honors on Earth — a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. They did it by smashing the current record for longest electric vehicle trip on a single charge by driving their custom built Daihatsu Mira a whopping 623 miles. The little electric car ran technology built around 8,320 Sanyo li-ion cells (totaling about 807lbs), which make up about half the weight of a commercial Mira.

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