Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, June 7, 1983 New robot brings high-tech to the home CHICAGO (AP) - The roast needs week at the 28th Consumer Electronics checking, the phone is ringing, the kids Show, the electronics industry's annual are screaming for something to do, and roundup of the latest in games and all you want is a cold beer. Soon you'll gadgets. be able to buy a robot named B.O.B. to BUT AS B.O.B.'s manufacturers take care of everything. point out, there's a skill that sets their B.O.B. is a strapping, round-headed "boy" apart from the video games, three-footer with twinkling red eyes - stereo components and pocket they're really infrared sensors - and claculators. B.O.B. can get you a beer. most of the same capabilities as a home At a signal from his master's infrared computer. He comes with programs "beacon," B.O.B. goes scurrying off to that allow him to teach languages, play the kitchen, bouncing ultrasonic signals games and patrol the house. left and right as a kind of radar that But his manufacturer, California- keeps him from bumping into the walls.- based Androbot, Inc., says B.O.B. is "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, more than a $3,000 tangle of circuit Thursday, thirsty, thirsty, thirsty," he boards and microprocessors. When he mutters electronically. "Oh, my goes on the market in August, he'll be a master is thirsty." pal with a personality. RESPONDING to a signal from "Children come up to him and B.O.B., the specially designed look him in the eye," said Rick Gibson, refrigerator dispenses a beer, and the Androbot's marketing manager. robot trundles back to his master. "Adults tend to pat him on the head. "Remember to open it before you They approach him as they would a drink it," says the wisecracking robot. friend or a pet." The refrigerator designed to work Along with his less sophisticated with B.O.B. should be available by brothers, F.R.E.D. and T.O.P.O., year's end, said Gibson, and will retail B.O.B. is appearing in Chicago this for $495. Conspiracy charged in athletic recruiting (Continued from Page 1) The Court of Appeals yesterday reversed the ruling saying that the University is not a branch of the state government and not entitled to im- munity from legal action. The case was ordered back to trial court for further proceedings. ORR, currently head basketball coach at Iowa State University, and Snowden, an athletic department official at the University of Arizona, were unavailable for comment. But University assistant coach Steve Fisher said the University does not usually accept transfer students on the basketball team. Rickey Green was the only transfer student he could remem- ber. "Bill Freider (head basketball coach) told me personally that we would not recruit junior college players," said Fisher. He said that the University's recruiting history would disprove Jones' claims. UNIVERSITY attorney Roderick Daane would not comment on the charges when contacted by the Daily yesterday because he had not read the court opinion. ..Jones, who is only 5'9", was selected the Most Valuable Player in the annual Detroit East-West game and was Snowden's protege, according to attor- ney Quinn. Snowden was headed in the spring 1968 for a job with the Univer- sity. Jones lives in Detroit with his mother and has been in and out of mental hospitals since college and is unable to work. TODAY Easy way out OR PEOPLE WHO can't say "no," Donald James Von Rase of Madison, Wis. will make an offer they can't refuse. He will say "no" to anyone for them for a mere $5 per year. "What easier way to say no when you want to than say, 'Call my agent.' Then the call comes in and I look in the card file to see if the request concerns one of my clients, then, very diplomatically, I say, 'You know, I wish we could get together on this, but I'm afraid it's just not going to work out." Von Rase, sold 4,600 copies of a document a few years ago certifying the person was entitled to a place on the Nixon Administration's "White House enemies" list. He guarantees he will say "no" to every proposal. HAPPENINGS TUESDAY Speakers SYDA Foundation - "Music and Meditation," Laslo Slomovits, 8:00 p.m., 1522 Hill street. TM Program - Introductory lecture on the Transcendental Meditation Program, 8 p.m., 5281W. Liberty. Meetings Racquetball - Practice meeting, 6-8 p.m., Cts. 10 & 11, CCRB. Society of Christian Engineers - Brown bag meeting, noon, 315 W. Eng. His House Christian Fellowship - Fellowship & Bible study, 7:30 p.m., 925 E. AnnSt. Ann Arbor Go Club - 7-11 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. Aikido - Practice 5 p.m., Wrestling room, Athletic Bldg. Baptist Student Union - Fellowship & Bible Study, 7 p.m., Rm B, 3rd floor, League. Amnesty Int'l Group 61- 7:30 p.m., Union. Gay Liberation Front - 7:30 p.m., Conf. rm. C, League. Miscellaneous CEW - Job Hunt Club (drop-in support group for active job seekers), 12-1 p.m., 350 S. Thayer St., 2nd Fl. of the Comerica Bank. Student Wood & Crafts Shop - Introduction to Woodworking, 7-10 p.m., 537 SAB. WEDNESDAY Films Hamlet, 6:30 p.m., Long Day's Journey into Night 9:10 p.m., Lorch. CFT - Alice's Restaurant, 7:30 p.m., Easy Rider, 9:30 p.m., Michigan Theatre. Cinema II - I walked with a Zombie, 7 & 9:30 p.m., I Married a Witch, 8:20 p.m., Aud A, Angell. Performances Open Tower Carillon Demonstration, 4-5 p.m., Burton Tower. Speakers Psychiatry - James Sorensen, "Management Info Systems in Mental Health: Accounting, Cost-Outcome & Cost-Effectiveness Analyses," 10:30 a.m., Children's Psychiatric Hospital Aud. Chemistry - Val Goodfellow, "Recent Strategies For the Use of Cyclodex- trins As Biomimetic Reagents and Catalysts," 4p.m., Room 1300. EMU - Colin Beaumont, "The OPEN World: Universal Information Management Through Communications," 7 p.m., Sheraton University Inn, I-94 and State St. Meetings Tae Kwon Do Club - Practice, 6-8 p.m., outside behind IM bldg. Nurses' Christian Fellowship - 4-5:30 p.m., 2703 Furstenberg. Academic Alcoholics -1:30 p.m., Alano Club. Mich. Gay Undergraduates - 9 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. Science Fiction Club - "Stilyagi Air Corps," 8:15 p.m., Ground Fl. Conf. Rm., Union. Miscellaneous WCBN - "Radio Free Lawyer," discussion of legal issues, 8 p.m., 88.3 FM. 4 The Michigan Daily Vol. XCIII, No. 13-S Tuesday, June 7, 1983 News Room (313) 764-0552, 76- The Michigan Daily is edited and DAILY. Sports Desk, 763-0376; Cir- managed by students at the Univer- culation, 764-0558; Classified Adver- sity of Michigan. Published daily tising, 764-0554; Billing, 764-0550. 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