In 1950, former Royal Air Force officer Tony Sale built a 6-foot-tall humanoid robot, one of Britain’s first, from the scraps of a crashed bomber. After spending 45 years stored in a garage, it’s walking just fine.
Handset maker HTC and GPS giant Garmin have found themselves in the middle of an ugly war. This time the fight it isn’t in courts over patents or trademarks—instead the battle is on the roads of the Tour de France.
