Industrial robots from Germany will be spending their life in Australia's great outdoors, helping to improve the accuracy of the country's Global Navigation Satellite System positioning knowledge. The project, a GNSS robotic calibration facility, has been switched on in Canberra, and will ultimately be part of a nationwide …

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Tuesday 21st May 2013 08:39 GMT John Smith 19

Impressive.

But I can't help feel that robot might do with a bit more environmental protection if it's on station for years at a time.

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1. Tuesday 21st May 2013 09:01 GMT Crisp
  
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  It's a german robot. It's not afraid of a little weather.
  
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2. Tuesday 21st May 2013 09:25 GMT Michael 28
  
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  I think there's a different kind of weather down south. Probably spends it's spare downtime mixing mint juleps and listening to Max Monroe...or...err.... Kraftwerk.
  
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  1. Wednesday 22nd May 2013 06:14 GMT Liam O'Hagan
    
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    Funnily enough, Kraftwerk are playing at the Sydney Opera House on Friday...
    
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Tuesday 21st May 2013 09:57 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson

Unprecedented precision!

So now, drivers can mess things up with sub-millimetre precision!

OK, stop this sketch it's getting silly

Mine is the one with a map in the pocket

(and yes, sub-millimetre precision is impressive!)

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Tuesday 21st May 2013 10:13 GMT Anonymous Coward

Because Australians in the outback hate to take potshots at things

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Tuesday 21st May 2013 13:52 GMT Eddy Ito

Ok

How long before someone plants a pair of receivers on a watch face and calculate the orientation of the watch or makes a GPS controlled 3D printer to build something up from global coordinates?

Beer with a floating GPS based "evaporation" sensor.

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Tuesday 21st May 2013 20:54 GMT WatAWorld

Question: So is each of these robots permanently located in one place, or do they travel around?

Question: So is each of these robots permanently located in one place, or do they travel around?

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Sunday 26th May 2013 03:08 GMT Winkypop

Yes

But can they get a beer from the fridge and open it?

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