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Random Robot Roundup
     

Reader Carlos
Montesinos noticed that Evolution Robotics is now selling their own
floor cleaning robot called Mint,
a little square robot that appears to clean the floor by pushing a paper
towel around. Our friends at Plastic Pals posted a story with
some video
of the Fujitsu ENON robot
working a crowd. Rog-a-matic was amused
by the artist's take on
robot waste in an
ad for electro-recycling.
3 Quarks Daily has a
short piece on Obama's progress in reversing what some have
called the Bush administration's war on science. The short version is:
things are looking up but there's a long way to go. Finally, Travis
Deyle writes, "I thought you might find this interesting. It's a robot
that uses electrostatic field sensing (much like those off-the-shelf
capacitance sensors) to find and plug itself into wall outlets." We
also reported on the self-plugging Willow Garage
robot recently. Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing facts
we should report? Send 'em our way please. And don't
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