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Machinations

By Rose Farley October 04, 2001

A few miles east of Lake Ray Hubbard, deep in the heart of the orderly suburb of Heath, a halogen beam cuts into the darkness surrounding Barry Jordan's two-car garage. There, amid the glow, Jordan hosts another session of Robot Builder's Night Out, attended, as usual, by his partners Eric... More >>>

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"Little Toddler" was born in Barry Jordan's garage.

Top: A contestant stalls during the Dallas Personal Robotics Group's line-following contest, while other contestants, below, queue up. Contest master of ceremonies Kip Moravec interviews Harrison Massey about his robot, "Sugar Eater 2."

Top: A contestant stalls during the Dallas Personal Robotics Group's line-following contest, while other contestants, below, queue up. Contest master of ceremonies Kip Moravec interviews Harrison Massey about his robot, "Sugar Eater 2."

Top: Robot-builders gather in a suburban garage for a night of construction. Barry Jordan leans on the 2,000-pound German gear cutting machine he recently purchased and installed in his garage, scene of another Robot Builder's Night Out. Eric Yundt, bottom, rewrites the computer code he uses to make bot bones.

Anatomy of a bot bone code: Before entering his step-by-step instructions into the computer, Yundt works the equation out on his yellow notepad. "I feel naked without it," he says.

SMU scientist David Anderson with the awe-inspiring SR04. Robots, he says, should be able to survive in their environments, independent of human intervention.

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