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11.26.09

Robot of the Week: the Friendliest Little Autonomous Explorer

A low-tech alternative to GPS

By Val Wang Posted 06.15.2009 at 9:08 am 0 Comments

Your mother told you never to speak to strangers, but what if the stranger was a robot on wheels, who was lost and needed your help? Thirty-eight people in this very predicament chose to speak to the waylaid robot, whose task was to cross a busy city without a map or GPS. All it could do was ask directions.

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Who's Better at Giving Directions, Men or Women?

We tackle the answer to the age-old question

By Corey Binns Posted 03.28.2008 at 4:19 pm 1 Comment

He says go straight for three miles and turn east. She says drive past the school and turn right at the green house. Both sets of directions will get you to the same grocery store just as easily, but they embody the language barrier between the sexes that lurks behind many a front-seat argument.

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READ MORE ABOUT > april 2008, Corey Binns, directions, fyi, gender differences