More positive news on robotics.

An easy to program, practical robot for small industrial applications over at Technology Review.  Naturally, from one of the founders of iRobot.  As I've said (or at least implied) in several recent posts (Roomba, warp drive, and a few other posts lately), now we're getting somewhere.

Goofy eyes, but according to the article they actually have a function so go read the article.