Word: mailboy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a trial run, the mailboy missed a turn and went crashing through a men's room door. Now he has a regular office job-delivering and picking up letters on the 49th floor of Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower-and should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused...
Beeping Sound. The dream mailboy is a completely automated cart with 20 mail compartments. It runs on four rubber wheels and is driven by a battery-powered electric motor. Electrical sensors in the cart pick up low-frequency radio signals from wires that are strung under the carpets along the desired route. Following their path, the 500-lb. robot stops when its photoelectric sensing system picks up signal lights bounced off reflective tiles strategically placed on corridor walls at knee level...
...wends its way around the floor at about one mile per hour, the mailboy emits a soft beeping sound and a low-intensity blue light to alert unwary humans. If these warnings are ignored, infra-red sensors inform the robot when it is four inches away from a leg or a misplaced piece of furniture, and it comes to a stop after moving only another inch...
When the obstacle is removed, the mailboy immediately resumes its travels...
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