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This yellow robot is surrounded by strips of yellow-striped tape that designate safety zones. A camera overhead monitors the zones and gradually slows the robot as a person gets closer. On a typical production line, the robot would stop when a person got close enough then restart once a person left, but at the Robotation Academy, this robot comes with an even closer zone that stops it altogether; a keyed switch on a control panel restarts it.
March 9, 2012 9:13 AM PST
Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET
| Caption by: Stephen Shankland
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