October 7, 2008 (Tuesday)
- Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa share the Nobel Prize for physics. (NobelPrize)
- Professor Takeo Someya of the University of Tokyo starts working on the first sensitive skin for robots. (PopSci)
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“Especially when the October wind
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