Professor George Whitesides, an author of the paper, said: "Conventional robotics is a pretty highly developed area, and if you look at various robots you find that most are basically built on the body plan of a mammal.
The headline figures are pretty impressive: Developed nations have set aside an estimated $27.9 billion, a combined total that is only $2 billion shy of the amount they promised between now and 2012.
Still, he admits that his emotions are pretty "available", even "over-developed, because as an actor, you have to portray those particular feelings.
She was an intelligent girl, of an old theatrical family; reports speak of her as having "a pretty face and well-developed figure"—or "passably pretty and not much of an actress".
On the one hand, the region is home to some of the world's fastest-growing markets, at a time when insurance in developed markets is pretty saturated.
However, Engin Akyol, CTO of Distil.it (ff Venture Capital portfolio company which operates a global network of servers) observed, "The problem with this approach is that the global reach of U.S. influence is pretty extensive, and virtually no developed nation is going to risk the political fallout of hosting a criminal enterprise and protecting it from American authorities or Interpol".
Terribly sorry, Florida, for your ineffable suffering, though given how pretty much everyone in the developed and reasonable portions of our fine nation is grateful they don't live anywhere near the sweaty tongue of America that is you, that's sort of redundant.
In a developed nation, that seems pretty wild.
4.55pm GMT My verdict The evidence seems pretty clear cut to me: the most developed nations should, indeed, proportionately do the heavy-lifting when it comes to tackling climate change, be that mitigation or funding adaptation.
