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This entry-level humanoid robot built from the new Bioloid Premium Kit is ready for soccer matches and fighting competitions. Start saving your airfare for RoboGames 2010. Photo by Walter Sidas.

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6 UPDATE Stories of triumph - by Tom Atwood

8 NAME THAT BOT!

10 ROBOT FEED
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12  LERN
      Leading Edge Robotics News
      - by Tom Atwood, Thomas
      Marsh & Steven Euin Cobb

50 SNAPSHOT

82 PLUG AND PLAY
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90 FUTURE BYTES
      Abasoft introduces the
      Robot Companion
      —by Thomas Marsh

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22	KHAN
	A terrain-adapting robotic insect with obstacle avoidance —by Mark Essenburg Kahn Source Code

28	MOONRAKER FROM PAUL'S ROBOTICS
	Winner of the 2009 NASA Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge! —by Colleen Shaver & Paul Ventimiglia Read the Online Article

32	LYNXMOTION BRAT
	Dedicated Mech Warfare biped —by Brian Nave

36	VEX OPENS DOOR IN JAPAN
	Inaugural robotics tournament thrills students & unites a global community —by Don Chambers

40	X-BRAT!
	Fully autonomous Mech Warfare robot —by Mark Fedasiuk

44	WILLOW GARAGE UNLEASHES PR2
	New open platform expected to turbocharge robotics development —by Thomas Marsh

48	UNCLE SAM WANTS ROBOTS!
	A flood of stimulus money chases government contracts —by Kevin Berry

52	ROBOTIC EVOLUTION CREATES REAL "DECEPTICONS"
	Swiss bots learn to "lie" to survive! —by Rich Silverman

54	ROBOTIS BIOLOID PREMIUM KIT
	Upgrades further improve a standard-setting humanoid —by Harry Mueller

60	PARALLAX BOE-BOT
	Gateway to robotics! —by James H. Phelan MD

64	COOLERBOT
	A nature photography robot —by Steve Norris Coolerbot Source Code and Schematics

70	KOWATEC MINI HEXAPODINNO
	Mini 6-legged hobby robot! —by Bill Griggs

76	INTERNATIONAL ROBOT EXHIBITION 2009
	IREX - the robotics epicenter —by Lem Fugitt

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	74	GRASSROOTS ROBOTICS: TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION & INNOVATION FIRST PARTNER
		New alliance to swell VEX robotics competition ranks —by Tom Atwood & Rosanne White

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