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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Mike Greene of Robot Science and Technology magazine
for putting the team together to write this book. Bob Gross, Andrew Lindsey,
Ronni Katz, Carlo Bertocchini, and Steve Richards provided a lot of top-quality
support and information, as well. Without their help, the quality of this book
would not be where it is now. We would also like to thank Carlo Bertocchini and
Grant Imahara for taking time out of their busy schedules to serve as technical edi-
tors. They provided valuable comments and insights that vastly improved our
work. Mark Setrakian, Peter Abrahamson, Christian Carlberg, Peter Menzel,
Larry Barello, Dave Owens, Jamie Hyneman, Vincent Blood, Clare Miles, and
Ken Gracey were of great help in providing excellent photos. A special thanks goes
to Dave Johnson for his help in interviewing Christian Carlberg, Grant Imahara,
Jim Smentowski, Stephen Felk, Donald Hudson, and Jamie Hyneman for the
“First Person” stories you’ll find throughout the book. Additional thanks go out
to the people at Vantec, Hawker, IFI Robotics, Parallax, Panasonic, National
Power Chair, Acroname, Futaba, and Grainger for their technical support and use
of some of their photos. Finally, we would like to thank Margie McAneny, Lisa
Wolters-Broder, Michael Mueller, and the whole team “behind the scenes” at
McGraw-Hill/Osborne for their patience and help in putting this book together.
Pete adds: I would like to thank my wife, Kristina Lobb Miles, for all of her tireless
help. With her brilliant skills in graphics manipulation, she was able to put together
most of the artwork and photos. Without her help, this project would not have
happened. She is a wonderful person and deserves a lot of credit. Tom Carroll,
too, deserves a lot of credit for putting this together. His infinite knowledge of ro-
botics and ability to write lots of information in a very short time period is greatly
appreciated.
Tom adds: I would like to thank my wife, Sue, for her tireless support and
encouragement of my many robotics activities for the past 35 years. She has en-
dured my many trips to all over that took me away from home and my family,
watched as various robots grew to completion in my shop, patiently waited as I
spent many hours in my office typing away at this book, and listened politely as
I talked for hours on end about robots. I would also like to thank Pete Miles for his
patience, organization, great knowledge, and tremendous effort at spearheading
this project. His wife Kris proved to be a most valuable asset at making the graphics
and manuscript flow to perfection. These two are a most incredible team, and with-
out them, this book would have been only a pile of papers scattered on the floor.

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