[Robotgroup] robot to fill your car gas tank?

[Gray Mack]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080204/od_nm/robot_dc;_ylt=ArsIwGLQz8Yz30N4eOH6nEys0NUE
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Dutch inventors unveiled Monday a 75,000 euro
($111,100) car-fuelling robot they say is the first of
its kind, working by registering the car on arrival at
the filling station and matching it to a database of
fuel cap designs and fuel types.

A robotic arm fitted with multiple sensors extends
from a regular petrol pump, carefully opens the car's
flap, unscrews the cap, picks up the fuel nozzle and
directs it toward the tank opening, much as a human
arm would, and as efficiently.




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