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Now that you've learned of Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose through the Google Doodle, experience him first hand in his works that are now in the public domain.
Read MoreThe November 29, 2016 Google Doodle honors Louisa May Alcott, an American author and poet best know for her novel Little Women (1868). She was born November 29, 1832 and today is her 184th birthday.
The copyrights in her work have expired and are in the public domain. As such, anyone may reprint the works without paying a royalty.
Project Gutenberg is a fantastic resource to explore works that are in the public domain.
Exploring the link to Little Women in Project Gutenberg, you will note the books are easy to access. The QR Code in the lower lefthand corner is particularly useful for moving a book into your iPhone or Android device using a QR Code reading app like RedLaser.
Louisa May Alcott has inspired many others to authorship as seen at the United States Copyright Office. You can explore the Copyright Search Records to find other copyrighted works of authorship on Louisa May Alcott.
You can meet, Pepper, the four-foot-tall roving android, at the Westfield Malls in San Francisco and Santa Clara where it will be working for the 2016 holiday season. Pepper is SoftBank Robotics' idea for a robot built to benefit humankind (see https://www.meetpepper.com). Pepper hasn't had much work in the United States but 7,000 Peppers are in Japan..
Pepper is protected by trademarks in the United States. See US Reg. No. 4,920,360 and US Reg. No. 4,813,007.
Pepper's design was invented by Vincent Clerc who is living in Clamart, France. You can see all sides of Pepper's claimed design in U.S. Design Patent No. 719,620.
There is much more to Pepper then robotic-good looks. Check out a sample of the utility patents and patent applications below:
US8997599 MOTORIZED JOINT WITH TWO PIVOT CONNECTIONS AND HUMANOID ROBOT WHICH IMPLEMENTS THE JOINT VIEW PDF
US2015122073 SPINAL COLUMN FOR A HUMANOID ROBOT VIEW PDF
US9429948 HUMANOID ROBOT HAVING FALL-MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SAID FALLS VIEW PDF
US2016325437 ACTUATION OF A HAND INTENDED FOR BEING PROVIDED ON A HUMANOID ROBOT VIEW PDF
If you would like to do your own patent search go to www.uspto.gov or google.patents.com and search for ALDEBARAN ROBOTICS the assignee (i.e. owner or company).
You can see an Japanese advertisement for Pepper below.