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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Marion the Robot Librarian
[A press release received
today says:] "A team of researchers from the Intelligent Robotics
Laboratory at the University Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, Spain, has
created the first automat capable of performing the tasks usually
carried out by a library clerk. The robot uses speech-recognition to
identify the book that is being requested, then determines its
location, goes to the shelf, picks it up and takes it to wherever it is
instructed to do so."
That's pretty cool.
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Re: Marion the Robot Librarian
by
andkilde
on Thu 08 Jul 2004 09:25 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Ah, but can she knock you back three steps by fixing you with her cold steely gaze as you return the slightly shopworn stack of Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions three days late?
Cheers, Ted |
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