<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8f0ac686-6795-491c-bf1e-08b80f468bb0/DBFB5269-87F7-46F1-8D7A-837562EE3447/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php" href="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php" style="font-size: 11px;">dvice.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php"><DIV class="blogHeading"><SPAN class="title-robots">You wouldn't like Marvin the security 'bot when it's angry</SPAN> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php">The master's degree students at the Victoria University of Wellington <A href="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/05/the_onehorsepow.php" linkindex="96">in New Zealand</A> have been tinkering with Marvin, the school lab's $20,000 security 'bot, for almost seven years now, and it's come quite a ways. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dvice.com/img/53C3BA52-E9B1-431E-A9AE-6912A95CB6B6" alt="Dale-Carnegie-with-Marvin-the-robot.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php">Marvin (named after the robot of the same name from <I>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</I>) stands for Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation, and it has the ability to carry on simple conversations replying with verbal and physical cues, using its shape and voice to display a variety of emotions including happiness and anger.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php">Talking with the robot is a frequent occurrence for the students, who have to ask Marvin's permission to get into the labs, at which point Marvin will also politely see if they require any assistance with whatever they're doing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/you_wouldnt_lik.php">If someone isn't authorized to enter Marvin's lab, the <A href="http://dvice.com/archives/2007/08/probo_robot_is_very_huggable_w.php" linkindex="99" set="yes">'bot lets them know</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBFB5269-87F7-46F1-8D7A-837562EE3447/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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