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POPSPersonal Assistant Robots - Current State of the Art Willow Garage, based in Menlo Park, Calif., is developing a hardware and software development platform for personal-assistant robots, autonomous boats and unmanned cars. The privately funded company, quietly started almost a year ago by eGroups founder and veteran Google architect Scott Hassan, plans to make its robotics software open-source. That way, it hopes to draw a community of developers to build applications in these respective fields.
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POPSInternational Space Station - $130 Billion wasted and counting I support the space program and manned exploration of space. But the ISS has devoured so many billions by now, and our only plan for it once it is complete is to close it down. Why keep building it if it can't/won't be used? Let's get back to the moon and setup some permanent bases.
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POPSPay Up Contra Costa County Note that these guys can even FIND the computers they ordered and didn't pay for. And after welshing for almost 20 years they just want to not pay. What a bunch of jerks.