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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

would like to express my gratitude to robotics researchers Joseph
I Engelberger, Rodney Brooks, Marc Raibert, and Donna Shirley
for taking the time from their busy schedules to answer questions
and provide feedback and photographs. I would also like to thank
the folks at Honda Motor Corporation and iRobot, Inc. for their
help in obtaining information and photographs. My editor, Frank
Darmstadt, deserves special thanks for his patient help seeing this
project through to its conclusion. And also a special thanks to copy
editor Amy L. Conver. Finally, I am thankful every day for sharing
my life with my wife, Lisa Yount: fellow author, burgeoning artist,
and always best friend.

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