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From: robink@aus.hp.com (Robin Kenny)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: REAL applications for mobile robots?
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Over Yonder (tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu) wrote:
: How about this.  A Brick Laying robot.  Maybe not for houses but for 
: those fences that people build around swimming pools.  Maybe have
: another robot to dig a foundation.  Paint the ground with a spray can.
: Let the digger follow the paint and dig the hole.  Let the Brick 
: Layer Follow the whole and lay the bricks.

How about robots for building refugee camps? 
That seems to be a growth industry.

(as usual, the Mouth doesn't speak for his company...)
