Thread: Peace, Love, and all that hippy stuff: robotics career outside the defense industry?
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Re: Peace, Love, and all that hippy stuff: robotics career outside the defense indust
Three words:

Tape-Backup Libraries.

There are two companies that I know of that build tape picking/placing robots:
Quantum
Overland

Other places tape drives, which are Sony, IBM, or Quantum.

Here is the robot system I worked on once upon a time:
http://www.quantum.com/flash/i500/Scalari5003d.html

-Jim
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