Random Robot Roundup

[RoboGuy]

It's time to empty out the robots.net mailbox again and, as always, wehave some interesting items for you. Roland Piquepaille writes,"Happy new robotic year! Let's start with LiSA which will helplife science workers. It will 'interact with technicians in the labs oflife science companies and autonomously take over routine tasks such astransporting multiplates and setting up and stocking stations.'" The SwirlingBrain noticed a EW.comarticle on the SarahConnor Chronicles. Before you ask, no, Arnold will not be back thistime. Instead Summer Glauplays a cute 26 year old cyborg. You may remember herclassically-trained ballet combat moves from Firefly and Serenity.Speaking of war, Mr Brain also sent a link to storyin the Register about two robots developed as part of the Army'sFuture Combat Systems project. The article ends with speculation thatwe're following the path that changed the inhabitants of Skaro from Kaledsinto Daleks. Sergey Popov writes,"Here is a story about a home-madelaser range finder. The assembly consists of a laser pointer and aweb cam. Here is another link which explains how to build a little bitmoresophisticated laser range finder. We've heard that Roschler has createdanother of crazymusical obot videos, this time starring Digger, Claire, andPendragon, his three Pleo robots. RobertSkinner writes, "I wanted to give a quick heads up that Kiva Systems is manufacturing its1,000th robot this week". Congratulations to Kiva on their successand here's hoping they sends us one of those cool robots soon! :-) Knowany other robot news, gossip, or amazing facts we should report? Send 'em our way please.

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