Robot Magazine - January/February 2009 issue 14

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Scarab, a robot designed at Carnegie Mellon University for lunar prospecting, is seen on trial runs in June 2008 at Moses Lake in Washington state. The four-wheeled robot will trek to different sites on the moon using a Canadian-built drill to obtain a one-meter geologic core at each site. See Jim Oberg’s “Robot Moon Fleet on the Horizon” on page 24.

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6 UPDATE

8 NAME THAT BOT

10 ROBOT FEED
Readers' letters

12  LERN
      Leading Edge
      Robotics News

32 SNAPSHOT
Robot surgeon

81 PLUG AND PLAY
Product news

90 FUTURE BYTES
Ratbrain Cyborg
—by Tom Atwood

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24	ROBOT MOON FLEET ON THE HORIZON
	Commercial enterprise to play a growing role in space —by Jim Oberg

28	HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
	Giving gifts? Think robots! —by team Robot

32	ROBOSTOOL
	Furniture on demand! —by Steven Norris Source Code for RoboStool (zip file) Watch the RoboStool in Action!

36	MECHRC SHADOW STALKER
	An affordable humanoid with expandable functionality —by Lem Fugitt

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	40	BUILD A SWASHBOT
		Simple, affordable and surprisingly graceful —by I-Wei Huang

	42	PARALLAX PENGUIN
		Sophisticated, desktop-scale robot —by Peter DelMastro

	46	THE MAN BEHIND HOLLYWOOD'S ROBOTS
		Fred Barton—living his childhood dream —by Dean Berry

	52	LYNXMOTION PHOENIX
		Cutting-edge hexapod with the grace of a ballet dancer —by Harry Mueller

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	62	SAVAGE INNOVATIONS OOBUG
		A new hobby and educational robot based on ooPic sets a new standard —by Jim Walsh

	66	ROBOT VILLAGE TESTING LAB
		Robotis Ollo —by Philippe Ayoub & Joshua Montes

	78	DUMP ME! THE LINE-FOLLOWING DUMP-TRUCK ROBOT
		A tale of debugging secrets —by Francis X. Govers III Source Code for Dump Truck Watch the Video! (Quicktime video)

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	70	GRASSROOTS ROBOTICS
		Autodesk VEX Robotics Curriculum spearheads education —by Tom Atwood

	74	CREATING ROBOTS THAT ACT LIKE PEOPLE
		Humanoid Robotics Institute makes machines “more human” —by Marie Planchard

	76	ROBOTS TO THE RESCUE… OF OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE
		Educational robotics comes of age —by Tom Gordon

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