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Article: Veteran engineer sees future in robots. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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LONG BEACH, Calif. _ You don't have to be a rocket roboticist to see the folly of having a robot employee: 
They can't carry their own weight _ nowhere near it. And as for mobility, the ant has them beat by an evolution. 
These truths don't deter Long Beach robotics expert Tom Carroll. Rather, they're the spur to him in his cottage business, Universal Robot Systems. 
Carroll, 50, left Rockwell International Corp.'s Satellite & Space Electronics Division, in Seal Beach, Calif., in 1991 after 27 years there as an engineer. 
``In the mid-'80s, I got on a space station program with Rockwell in Downey,'' he says. ``We had about 500 people in our own division. My job ...

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