New Dutch Robot Pumps Your Gas

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New Dutch Robot Pumps Your Gas
« on: February 05, 2008, 06:48:53 pm »
New Dutch Robot Pumps Your Gas
     


Reuters
is carrying a story about a Dutch robot called TankPitStop that can pump your
gas at the gas station. A video of the robot in
action is avilable online. The inventor was inspired by seeing cow
milking robots, which are now very common in dairy industry. He
wondered, "if a robot can do that, then why can't it fill a car
tank?". So he built the TankPitStop robot. It is said to work on any
car provided the gas tank cover can be opened without a key and the
robot has the car's contours
and dimensions on file so it can avoid scratching the surface as it
moves. As is always the case with the latest robot, they're claiming this
is the first ever robot of it's kind but gas pumping robots have been around
for at
least a decade. Anyone have a link to an older one? The
blogosphere
seems
fascinated
by
this
story.
   

http://robots.net/article/2462.html
     

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Re: New Dutch Robot Pumps Your Gas
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2008, 10:30:30 pm »

Intelligent robot, but not very polite.

No smile? No "thank you - goodbye- have a nice trip"?  ;D


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Re: New Dutch Robot Pumps Your Gas
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2008, 04:46:04 pm »
Yes...and I wonder just how lazy we can become..

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Re: New Dutch Robot Pumps Your Gas
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2008, 04:30:23 pm »

Intelligent robot, but not very polite.

No smile? No "thank you - goodbye- have a nice trip"?  ;D



Dear Gt40, my 'HAL ', is very the 'robot ', Dutch polish, but, is not very courteous! I love my "Hal" very much, he is too definitely and unique, it is a good program, bravo has medeska! My best regards my friend. Claude. ;D ;)
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Re: New Dutch Robot Pumps Your Gas
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2008, 09:15:25 pm »
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Yes...and I wonder just how lazy we can become..
I'd say a lot lazier yet

 


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