Low-cost, compact picker-type robot
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- Robot operates on dog. // Current Health 1;Jan1991, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p21
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- `Taste-ful' robots. // Current Health 1;Mar1992, Vol. 15 Issue 7, p6
Reports that researchers are exploring ways to make robots with all five senses. Use of computers; Robots that `see' or detect sounds and vibrations; Use in industry; Use of chemicals and computers to make robots able to `smell' and `taste'; Fibers and electrical circuits used to make robots...
- This is not your father's robot. Holmstrom, David // Christian Science Monitor;4/30/98, Vol. 90 Issue 108, p12
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