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Fuji Xerox tests autonomous roaming printer in Japanese office

  • September 13, 2014
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Friendly Roomba-like robot scrambles to deliver documents to your desk.

by Lee Hutchinson - Sept 12 2014
 
Japan’s Fuji Xerox Company unleashed an automated roving robot printer on an unsuspecting office building in Tokyo over the summer. It’s definitely no giant beweaponed Gundam, but the robot does include a Xerox color laserjet printer mounted on a set of LIDAR sensors which it uses to build a map of the room it's in and to avoid obstacles while navigating.
 


 
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    • September 15, 2014
    This is awesome.  I'd print stuff just so the printer would come visit me.  Although getting up to go to the printer is the only exercise some people get, so maybe it isn't the best idea.
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