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The DARwin 4 humanoid created at RoMeLa for Robocup autonomous team soccer competition. Photo provided courtesy of Dr. Dennis Hong, RoMeLa, Virginia Tech.

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6 UPDATE - by Tom Atwood

8 NAME THAT BOT!

10 ROBOT FEED
Readers' letters

12  LERN
      Leading Edge Robotics News
      - by Tom Atwood, Kevin Berry
      & Steve Norris

34 SNAPSHOT

82 PLUG AND PLAY
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90 FUTURE BYTES
      Hobbico & Boeing team on
      search & rescue technology
      —by Tom Atwood

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22	HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
	Giving gifts? Think robots

24	U.S. ARMY HOLDS "ROBOT RODEO" AT FORT HOOD
	New sports event for the 21st century? —by Francis X Govers III

28	CHESSBOT - PHASE 2
	Watch historic games, play a chess engine or compete with others via Twitter! —by Steve Norris Chessbot Source Code Phase 2

32	SPACE DUMBWAITER ROBOTS
	A new generation of automated space transports arrives —by James Oberg

36	EVA THE ROBOT
	Couch-potato alert! This bot can raid the fridge! —by Steven Kirk Nelson with Kevin M. Berry

40	INNOVATION FIRST VEX PROTOBOT DUAL CONTROL STARTER BUNDLE
	A great kit for the hobbyist or any educational group. —by Steven Rainwater

44	VRBOT AND SAY-IT VOICE COMMAND MODULES
	Tell your Hitec Robonova-1 and Parallax Boe-Bot what to do! —by Harry Mueller

48	ROBOARD RB-100
	A closer look at an all-new robot controller with expanded capabilities —by Brian Nave

52	CYBRAPHON!
	A moody robot musician you can cheer up with email —by Richard Silverman

56	HOW TO TRIM YOUR HUMANOID
	Servo-adjustment tricks to get your bot walking —by Lem Fugitt

62	ROBOTS TO THE RESCUE IN DISASTER CITY
	An interview with CRASAR director Dr. Robin Murphy —by Francis X. Govers III

64	ARBOTIX ROBOCONTROLLER
	A powerful new 3rd party controller for Robotis Bioloid AX-12+ Dynamixel servos! —by Mike Ferguson

74	2009 AUVSI CONFERENCE COVERAGE
	Unmanned systems transform military; set sights on commercial applications —by Thomas Marsh

78	2009 KOREA ROBOT GAME FESTIVAL
	Games mark a vision of the future —by Rob Farrell

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	68	GRASSROOTS ROBOTICS: THE FUTURE FOUNDATION
		Making a difference in the robotics education community —by Tom Atwood

	70	ROBOFEST 2009
		Motivating young minds to master the machine —by Jamie MacLennan

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