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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!theta!bleck
  2. From: bleck@theta.ai.mit.edu (Olaf Bleck)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.robotics
  4. Subject: Re: 6 legged beast
  5. Message-ID: <25991@life.ai.mit.edu>
  6. Date: 29 Jul 92 20:45:35 GMT
  7. References: <gate.qL35NB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us> <1992Jul27.174110.5064@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1992Jul27.221854.3063@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul28.152022.725@miki.pictel.com>
  8. Sender: news@ai.mit.edu
  9. Reply-To: bleck@ai.mit.edu
  10. Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  11. Lines: 10
  12.  
  13. |> Yes Ghengis is neat, and I have alot of respect for the folks at MIT
  14. |> who built it. 
  15.  
  16. |> However, it doesn't carry it's own power supply...
  17.  
  18. Actually, it did for a while--it had a few silver-zinc cells on it, but they
  19. leaked potassium hydroxide all over Genghis one night while we were charging
  20. them up.  Pretty caustic stuff...
  21.  
  22. -Olaf
  23.