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From: "Derek da Silva" <dasi@eidosnet.co.uk>
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Subject: [Off topic] Real Robots
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:11:31 +0100
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http://www.cyber.rdg.ac.uk/CIRG/realrobots/index.htm
http://www.realrobots.co.uk/

Very cool.  It's a fortnightly robot-building magazine series (perhaps
you've seen the TV ads) developed by the University of Reading Cybernetics
Department.  My little brother bought the first issue (£1.99), and although
the content of the magazine is aimed mostly at young boys, the robot itself
will boast some quite sophisticated features as the series progresses.  The
robot kit parts supplied with the magazine are of an impressively high
quality.

It's capabilities will be similar to LEGO MINDSTORMS: various sensors,
light, sound etc.; infrared transmitter; programmability via a PC; remote
control, and later voice recognition and the ability to "recognise objects
by their shape and colour".  Visit the links.

cheers
Derek