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From: hpm@frc.ri.cmu.edu (Hans Moravec)
Subject: Denning Robotics new address!
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Users of Denning MRV robots orphaned during the last year will be
happy to hear they can again obtain service from:

Denning Branch International Robotics
1401 Ridge Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15233
tel: (412) 322-4412
fax: (412) 322-2040
email: soon. temporarily, messages to hpm@cs.cmu.edu will be forwarded

Denning-Branch is a merger of Denning Mobile Robotics, once located in
the Boston area, and makers of human-size mobile robots since 1983,
and Branch and Associates, of Hobart, Australia, designers and
builders of smaller mobile robots since 1979.

Among the first products available is an MRV retrofit kit, which
substitutes a modern Intel 80486 system with more power and a simpler
interface for the original 1985 vintage MC 68000 based controller.

Others:

Fander  	Small (~60x30x30 cm) 80486 based robot for educational 
	purposes, with infrared and rotating sonar sensors,
	preprogrammed for several autonomous navigation tasks, and
	externally controllable via serial link.

MRV 1&4   	Large (~90x90x120 cm) heavy payload capacity synchro
	drive robot, with optional sonar ring and laser nav sensors
	and software.

LaserNav    	Robot-mounted scanning infrared laser unit that uses
	wall mounted bar-coded retroreflectors or active transponders
	to navigate to  centimeter precision in 10-meter-scale areas.

RotoSonar	Fander-scale revolving sonar head with 4 sonar units.

Sonar Ring    	MRV-scale belt of 24 sonar units.


and more to come.
