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[Don Colbath]

I'm one of the few people I know who had a job working on
"real" robots.  These industrial robots could train themselves.
They had sensors that could detect the edges of  300mm wafers
and could define this as a "world" or location to fractions of a millimeter.
Boring!!  Well, actually they were cool but i wouldn't bring one to dorkbot.
Here's a pic and there's even one on Ebay with the supinaiting
arm (flips wafer horiz/vert) but it doesn't come with the controller (a
$30,000 option.)

Don

http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/27861

http://cgi.ebay.com/Newport-Kensington-300mm-Wafer-Robot-15-3701-1425-26_W0Q
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