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Friday, April 30, 2004


Great. Just what our highways need. Moving targets.
The orange construction cones and barrels that litter Nebraska's highways may be going high-tech.

A University of Nebraska professor has developed robotic cones and barrels that can move out of the way, or into place, from computer commands made miles away.

They can even be programmed to move on their own at any particular part of the day, said Shane Farritor, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Nebraska.

For example, if workers arrived at 6 a.m., the cones could move from the shoulder to block off the lane at that time, then return to the side of the highway at the end of the day.

"It just seems like a very good application for robots," Farritor said Thursday.
Is this guy out of his freakin' mind? How'd you like to be driving down the road and see a batch of Schneider eggs coming at you?



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