At 08:12 AM 19/04/2011, you wrote:
>IVP wrote:
> > The Packbot robot is made by Massachussetts company iRobot.
> > Travelling on miniature tank-like treads, it opened closed doors and
> > explored the insides of the buildings
> >
> > (is anyone else getting fed up with 'i....' names ?)
>
>Yes, but iRobot isn't to blame as they were one of the first (the first?).
>Their name was meant to be a takeoff on "I Robot", a science fiction novel
>by Isaac Asimov.

....just to nitpick, it was a collection of nine sci-fi short stories
entitled "I, Robot".

Without the comma, the play on the 1934 novel "I, Claudius"
by Robert Graves is lost.

Best regards,

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