<div dir="ltr">This company gave a presentation at the IEEE/TAR meeting a few months ago (Oct 7) about their company, robot construction, control, and some details of the robots they build for commercial use/sale. <div><br>
</div><div>Yes, it is definitely nice to have local sources for parts... wish there were more!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Pete Soper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete@soper.us" target="_blank">pete@soper.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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There is a web-only business in Fuquay Varina that allows "local
pickup" to be specified as a shipping method and they stock many
items of interest to area groups like TAR and TriEmbed. Being able
to just hike over and pick something up sure beats waiting for the
UPS truck.<br>
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<a href="http://superdroidrobots.com/" target="_blank"> SuperDroid Robots</a><br>
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-Pete<br>
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