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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: [Off topic] Real Robots
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:07:42 GMT
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Man, you guys are making me start to feel guilty for dropping out of
my robotics class.

Steven

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:11:31 +0100, "Derek da Silva"
<dasi@eidosnet.co.uk> wrote:

>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
>