Cybermotion, Inc. is licensing its autonomous vehicle technology, developed over 15 years. Their NavMaster III platform has Lidar and Sonar navigation, and can carry a 500 pound payload. or (540) 981-0012. [John Holland , comp.robotics.research, 19Jul00.]

Honda's walking robot can go for 25 minutes on a battery charge. The only planned use for this current model is PR work at trade shows. See and the picture at . [BBC News, 01Jul00. RCFoC, 24Jul00.] (It has been suggested that this robot is the perfect companion for Sony's Aibo robot dog.)

Researchers at MIT have built a robot tuna fish and are working on a robot pike. They hope to answer some important questions about how fish swim. . Researchers in Japan have built a robot sea bream and are planning models of extinct sea creatures. . For other "cool facts" about robots, see , <.../1999/05/21.html>, and <.../1999/09/06.html>. [Arun-Kumar Tripathi , EdResource, 31Jan00. net-hap.]

Guy Macon is seeking a pre-1997 example of a toy controlled by software downloaded through a detachable cable, to possibly invalidate US Patent 6,012,961. [, comp.robotics.research, 19Jul00.]

Morgan Smith is seeking info on robotics in the construction and manufacturing industries, for a Canadian Discovery Channel series called Frontiers of Construction. [, comp.robotics.misc, 19Jul00.]

The Robot Social Register -- Who Is Who Among Robots -- gives experimenters a way to find other robots using a particular microchip or programming language. . Arthur T. Murray is maintaining this, partly to promote the Mind.Forth AI language and its ports into other languages. Murray needs people to supply information about their robots, or at least the names of robots that he can look up on the Web. [, comp.robotics,misc, 16Aug00.]

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