Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Robotic Arm Automatically Pumps Gas


"Wish you didn't have to get out of your car to fill it up? Well, you could move to New Jersey, where gas attendants are still commonplace. Or you could head over to the Netherlands, where they use robots. The Tankpitstop robotic arm cost its Dutch inventors $111,100, and it uses an array of sensors and a car database to accurately hone in and open a car's gas flap, unscrew its cap and fill its tank with gas." -dvice.com

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