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Robots to get their own operating system

By Macgregor Campbell

5 August 2009

Video: Robot operating system

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Being one of a kind has its downsides

(Image: Aldebaran Robotics)

THE UBot whizzes around a carpeted conference room on its Segway-like wheels, holding aloft a yellow balloon. It hands the balloon to a three-fingered , which gingerly accepts the gift.

Cameras click. “It blows my mind to see robots collaborating like this,” says William Townsend, CEO of , which developed WAM.

The robots were just two of the multitude on display last month at the in Pasadena, California. But this happy meeting of…

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