03.2014
VOL. 12 NO. 3
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4 SERVO 03.2014
06 Mind/Iron
Designing From
Experience
07 Events
Calendar
19 New Products
21 Showcase
64 SERVO
Webstore
81 Robo-Links
81 Advertiser’s
Index
08 Robytes
by Jeff Eckert
Stimulating Robot Tidbits
• Stickybot has Space Potential
• Mechanical Cooter Seeks Shipwrecks
• Universal Gripper Goes Commercial
• Roomba to Beer Buddy
10 GeerHead
by David Geer
The Quadforge Black Bat
The Pennsylvania-based Montgomery County
Community College’s project helps give those
Swedish weather folks eyes in the air.
14 Ask Mr. Roboto
by Dennis Clark
Your Problems Solved Here
Resurrect your Savage Innovations Soundgin board.
74 Then and Now
by Tom Carroll
Humanity’s Perception of Robots
Whether they’re from the Uncanny Valley or just
simple, hard-working automatons, people’s feelings
about robots are changing.
Columns
Departments
• Cooking With OliveR
• The $20.6 Million Man
• Droning On While Perched
• Whiskers are the Cat’s Meow
• This One’s Mine
• It May Be a Small World,
After All
• AI Competition a Little Shakey
• Gathering MOSS is a Snap
• Best Way to Make a
Cookie Crumble
• Force(d) to Work Together
• Stand By Your Bot(Man)
• We’re (Not) In the Army Now
22 Bots in Brief
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