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Subject: Re: DGT Board with Robot Arm

Author: Steve B

Date: 19:34:38 01/21/06

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>        BTW, I heard Novag is planning to resurrect the Table Top with a Robotic
>Arm. What happened to it? Do you know?

well perhaps  you might be referring to Excalibur which has plans to release a
Robot which also talked
they were in partnership with a company from Hong Kong

here is a photo of it:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=d495&.dnm=779b.jpg&.src=ph

Ron Nelson the Pioneer of Commercial chess computing was responsible for the
chess program and the voice feature
his end of the production was up and ready to go
however the Hong Kong based company  responsible for the Robotic Arm movement
could not make a reliable Arm one without a large defect rate
so the production was halted and the project discontinued

Prototype Regards
Steve



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