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The 23-inch Aldebaran Nao boasts three levels of artificial intelligence and 25 degrees of freedom. It is the official standard league platform for RoboCup. Thomas Marsh brings you the full story on page 26.

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6 UPDATE - by Tom Atwood

8 NAME THAT BOT!

10 ROBOT FEED
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18 SNAPSHOT

82 PLUG AND PLAY
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90 FUTURE BYTES
      Parrot's AR.Drone steals
      the show at CES
      —by Tom Atwood

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20	A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ROBOGAMES
	Mighty menagerie of mechanical marvels —photo Essay by Samuel Coniglio

26	THE ALDEBARAN ROBOTICS NAO
	Companion, servant, playmate & academic research platform —by Thomas Marsh

30	MOVE OVER ROVER!
	DasaRobot's Genibo is coming home! —by Thomas Marsh

34	MICROMOUSE!
	A family of robots that pioneered machine learning —by Lem Fugitt

40	CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 2010
	Robots heat up Las Vegas! —by George Mitsuoka

44	TOM JOZWIAK'S HOME-BUILT ROBOTS
	Engineering meets art! —by Tom Jozwiak

50	PARALLAX PROP SCOPE USB OSCILLOSCOPE
	Low-cost, high-quality, alternative oscilloscope —by Steve Norris

52	2009 FISCHERTECHNIK FAN CONVENTION
	A gathering of the core of the "ft freak" community —by Richard Mussler-Wright

56	PARALLAX STINGRAY
	Boe-Bot's bad-boy big brother —by James H. Phelan MD with Steve Norris Stingray Source Code

60	INNOBOT
	Entry-level robot platform for budding roboticists —by Jim Walsh

64	BASIC TRANSPORTATION
	Inexpensive RetroBot for household navigation experiments —by Eric Ostendorff Retrobot Software, Notes and Video Retrobot-Software-Descriptions Retrobot Encoder JPEGs Retrobot Parallax Forum Discussion

70	WEST MOUNTAIN RADIO COMPUTERIZED BATTERY ANALYZER III
	An industry standard gets better —by Bob Aberle

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	68	2010 FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION KICKS OFF
		—by George Mitsuoka
	75	GRASSROOTS ROBOTICS: IROBOT'S SPARK PROGRAM BOOSTS ROBOTICS COMMUNITY GROWTH
		—by Richard Silverman

	78	PCS EDVENTURES BRAIN WITH FISCHERTECHNIK BUILDING KIT
		Easy programming & design flexibility —by Tom Murphy

	86	PROTOTYPING ROBOTS AT LIGHTSPEED
		Intelitek program uses VEX robots & EasyC to get a jump on FRC planning. —by Katy Hamilton & Jessica Boucher

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