Tuesday, May 06, 2003
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PHOTOS: Engineers' Best Friend

Students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Advanced Technologies Academy, a Clark County School District magnet school, cheer on a robotic dog Monday that they designed as part of a competition at the university's Beam Engineering Complex. Nine student teams built the dogs and programmed them to find, grasp and retrieve a small piece of white tubing.
Photo by John Locher.

John Smith, above, works on his robot during the competition. Brian Luke and Robert Olds, both pre-engineering students at UNLV, won the competition. Mechanical engineering professor Georg Mauer said several dogs found the stick but not all could grasp and retrieve it.
Photo by John Locher.