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From: hpm@cs.cmu.edu (Hans Moravec)
Subject: Re: Laser Barcode Reader for Denning Robot
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 18:38:52 GMT
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Tucker Balch asks:
>The Mobile Robot Lab at Georgia Tech is searching for a "Lasernav"
> barcode reader.
> These devices were orginally sold by Denning Robotics, which has
> since gone out of business.  
>
>The device uses a rotating mirror to sweep a laser beam through 360 degrees.
>It reports over an RS-232 line any barcodes it sees and the angular offset to
>them.  Barcodes are made with retro-reflective tape.
>
>If anyone knows where we might find one, we'd like to hear from you!
>
>Reply by e-mail to tucker@cc.gatech.edu
>
>Thanks
>
>Tucker Balch

Denning is not out of business, but restructuring and relocating.
Denning has merged with Branch & Asssociates, the Australian robotics
company. The contact information until new premises are opened later
this month is:

Mr. Allan Branch
Director, President and CEO
129 West 22nd Street, #7A
New York, NY 10011
Tel (212) 924 1380
Fax (212) 675 1195

All products and some new ones including Fander Research and
Educational Robot ($5,500) with rotating sonar mapping and built in
demonstrations of numerous guidance technologies, are available, but
with small delays.

LaserNavs are available for around $7,000.

		-- Allan Branch
	 (may also be contacted through Hans Moravec, hpm@cs.cmu.edu)



