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Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 16, 2002 @05:22PM from the hey-i'm-lazy-too dept.

prostoalex writes "Researchers at Massey University in New Zealand built a lawnmower operated via the Internet. The device currently needs physical boundaries of the lawn, but later this year it will be able to navigate. Here's the page of Glenn Bright, the researcher quoted in the article, unfortunately, the links to the research group and list of projects appear to be broken."

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Re:Why in New Zealand? (Score:3, Interesting)

by Stonehand ( 71085 ) writes: on Friday August 16, 2002 @05:29PM (#4085713) Homepage

Perhaps they're busy being sheared by another robot [uwa.edu.au]?

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Well, if the editors were impressed with THAT ... (Score:2, Interesting)

by Hayzeus ( 596826 ) writes: on Friday August 16, 2002 @05:34PM (#4085754) Homepage

...surely they'd be even more impressed with this [swampgas.com]. I mean, geez -- is the mowbot thing really news?

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