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The following article is to be be published in IEEE's "The Institute" 
next month. It was delayed getting to press - hence this posting.

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Austraila's Telerobot - coming to a virtual museum near you !

The World's first first 6 axis Telerobot began life in 1994 as an
experimental web based research tool for investigating the potential
of telerobotics and studying operator behaviour at the Perth based
University of Western Australia. (UWA is also the home of the World's 
first sheep shearing robot). Telerobot was invented by UWA researcher 
Ken Taylor in 1994 when the only other live device on the internet was 
a coffee pot at Cambridge University. Since then, UWA's Telerobot has 
been in use most of the time, the main complaint being that there is
only 
one Telerobot !

All this will change in early 1997 when a second Telerobot will become
available to meet the demand from 'net surfers' around the World.
Located at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, the
Telerobot will provide faster access to American operators who now
account for up to 65% of Telerobot users. Available 24 hours a day,
visitors from 'cyberspace' can use the Telerobot to build primitive
block structures and see their results almost immediately. Users can
then physically visit the museum and watch or operate live the Telerobot
they had been operating from home.

In October, the Telerobot took out a Japan Robotics Association (JARA)
award - recognition of its significant contribution to advancement in
robotics research.

The Telerobot Home Page is at URL "http://telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au/".

MARCUS ANDERSON

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