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How to build a Palm robot

Sure, a handheld personal digital assistant can beep its brains out to remind you of a noon appointment, but what if you left it at home? The beeping would be for naught -- unless that Palm Pilot could follow you, chase you down, even bump into you to get your attention.
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Sure, a handheld personal digital assistant can beep its brains out to remind you of a noon appointment, but what if you left it at home? The beeping would be for naught -- unless that Palm Pilot could follow you, chase you down, even bump into you to get your attention. It’s not science fiction, and, in fact, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute think everyone should have such a personal robot. So they’ve created a do-it-yourself kit and published the simple recipe on the Net -— $250, 11 parts and 15 steps later, you’ve got a Palm Pilot Robot. Full story. -- MSNBC

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