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	Moravec, Hans URL: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/ ODP description: Mobile robots and their psychology (Carnegie-Mellon Univ., USA) Page title: Hans Moravec home page, Hans P. Moravec home page
	Capek, Karel URL: http://capek.misto.cz/english/ ODP description: Czech author and playwright who popularized the term robot in his 1920 play, RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots. Page title: Karel Capek Page description: The works of the great Czech author Karel Capek
	Tesla, Nikola URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~drestinblack/tesla_inventor.htm ODP description: Tesla demonstrated a robotic boat that he called a teleautomaton in 1898 that many consider to be the first robot. Page title: Nikola Tesla - Serbian/American Inventor
	Asimov, Isaac URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov ODP description: Asimov was one of the three grand masters of science fiction and the creator of the term "robotics". He is known in the field for his Four Laws of Robotics and the large body of fiction he wrote about robots. He envisioned a future in which robots were (usually) safe, well-controlled servants of man. Page title: Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Brooks, Rodney A. URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/ ODP description: Cognition in autonomous robots (MIT, USA) Page title: Rodney Brooks
	Wiener, Norbert URL: http://www.angelfire.com/co/1x137/cyber.html ODP description: Generally known as the "father of cyborgs". Wiener was the originator of the term cybernetics and part of a group of scientists who originated the field. He was also an MIT mathematician, science fiction author, and designer of an early chess-playing robot. Page title: Norbert Wiener related links
	Walter, W. Grey, Online Archive URL: http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/Robots/gwonline/gwonline.html ODP description: Biography of one of the pioneers of robotics. Includes historical information and photos of many of the robots Walter created in the 1940s and 1950s. Page title: ias-people
	Tilden, Mark URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tilden ODP description: Creator of BEAM robotics, a controversial philosophy of robot building that advocates the use of "nervous nets" instead of conventional microprocessors as controllers, the use of recycled parts, and solar power. Page title: Mark Tilden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Tesla's Race of Robots URL: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_robots.html ODP description: A summary of Nikola Tesla's work in robotics done as part of a PBS documentary on his life. Includes information on his teleautomaton and his predication of mechanical, automated men. Page title: PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: Race of Robots
	Walter, W. Grey, Robotics Pioneer URL: http://stcroixstudios.com/wilder/fastkarl/drgreywalter.html ODP description: A respected neurophysiologist who did early work on autonomous mobile robots in the 1940s. Page title: Bio: Dr. W. Grey Walter