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Robots With Square Wheels?

Roland Piquepaille writes "About eighteen months ago, I told you about a tricycle with square wheels which needed a specially designed road. But now, Distributed Robotics, a company from Troy, N.Y., is developing robots with square wheels which don't need specific roads. These new 'cars' propel themselves on flat surfaces by taking advantage of gravity. This might sound crazy, but the inventors think it could lead to new robots and toys, and more generally to new micro-machines or MEMS applications."

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  1. lol gnaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    GNAA Announces Corporate Downsizing and Administrative Reformation
    GNAA Announces Corporate Downsizing and Administrative Reformation

    Misha Borovsky (GNAP) - Hollywood - GNAA President timecop announced at a press conference this morning that the Gay Nigger Association of America is in the midst of a large effort to reduce operating costs and streamline business processes. "Layoffs of approximately fifty percent of the gay workforce are to be expected, as well as a shifting in administrative functions," timecop was quoted as saying. Analysts predict this corporate downsizing was made necessary due to over-investment into the New Orleans area, when it was announced last year that the GNAA would be opening a state-of-the-art branch office on the coast. The building was nearing completion and just opening for business when it was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, which has been recently found to be the responsibility of Jews. As George W. Bush is noted for not caring about black people, FEMA has refused to pay for the repairs, and the project was scrapped.

    "We are also making internal changes to the corporate information technology intranet," said supers, CTO for GNAA Worldwide Operations. "Many of our information moving processes were running on the Lunix platform, and this was generating large costs due to system slowness and instability. After a careful usability study, we have found that we will be saving millions of dollars [USD] per year by switching to the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server System".

    timecop ended the conference by announcing, "We'll always be there for the gay niggers of the world. With this restructuring of the organization, we are enabled to offer twice the service for a fraction of the cost. It's a new gay universe ahead."

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  2. OUTGOING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. google by asdomar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I bet google is getting into this thing to complete the total pwnage!!1!!11

  4. Fucking hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's early for me, and I made the mistake of clicking links without really looking at the article, and actually went to that fucking blog reading rolands nicked story. Gah. There really ought to be a filter for those links.

  5. Re:Do you have stairs in your house? by Big+Nothing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "LOL protected LOL. Am I right?"

    Yes, you are right.

    "Seriously fucking lame."

    I apologize. I can only hope for a swift and painless death.

    --
    SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!