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Astronomers vs. Robot Lawnmowers?!

  • DZM by DZM admin

    File under "headlines that make utterly no sense until you read the article..."

    Why Astronomers Hate iRobot's New Robotic Lawnmower

    The robotic vacuums we all know and love ensure we don’t have to clean
    our own homes ourselves to get them spotless. (God forbid.) Now, the
    Roomba’s maker, iRobot, wants to do for lawn care what it did for
    vacuuming. According to filings with the FCC spotted by IEEE Spectrum,
    iRobot is designing a robotic mower—news that should elate lazy people
    the world over.

    But one group is really, really unhappy about this boon to the
    slothful: Astronomers. Some of them are so upset, in fact, that their
    objections might put the kibosh on the whole thing. How could this be?
    In a scenario that sounds straight out of the Golden Age of scifi, it
    all comes down to robots versus telescopes, and how they all
    communicate...

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