An announcement from NASA:
Robots Doing the Dirty Work!
Meet the engineers and managers of 8 distinguished extreme environment robot projects at NASA and the Department of Energy. NASA is offering an online course June 22 - July 15th, with classes each Tuesday and Thursday. Learn about the scorpion-bot, radiation robots, and others. Uncover the goals, challenges and complexities of pursuing the development of extreme robots. Tune in to a live chat room to have your questions about these extreme environment robots answered during the broadcast!
http://robotics.nasa.gov/courses/summer2004/index.php