Libraries
Source: The New York Times
“In Remote Library Stacks, an All-Seeing, Scanning Robot”
Learn about the Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials project at Johns Hopkins. From the article, “Unfortunately, the bulk of resources in most libraries is still available only in conventional printed form: bound, numbered and arranged on shelves. You can try doing all your research electronically but at some point, you will have to hunt down a book on one of those shelves, sit down and thumb through its pages. As the first step toward building such a system, the researchers have designed a robot that can move about inside a library and locate a book requested by a user, take it off the shelf and carry it to a nearby scanning station. In the system’s envisaged final version, a second robot at the scanning station would scan specific pages of the book that the user was interested in. The user would then be able to leaf through the book over the Internet from any location.”
See Also: Learn More via the Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials Web Site

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