Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Breeding nextgen Daleks! Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 12:14:31 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:14:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d1237d585f733a88adb4fba69711569b"; logging-data="2380704"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lphq85uR+e/s4gsIUF959" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AO+5wkEbgPmvEnmuUX8dAMp7DHo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1826 On 4/6/2024 9:19 AM, Don Y wrote: > On 4/6/2024 4:37 AM, Jasen Betts wrote: >> On 2024-04-02, Don Y wrote: >>> >> >> With the cheese-shaped head it looks more B-9 from "Lost in Space" >> >> https://www.metv.com/stories/the-robot-from-lost-in-space-was-nearly-destroyed-in-a-fire > > I think they may have been covid-related.  The "heads" appear to have vents. > Possibly to disperse some disinfectant?  (esp if they are on motorized bases) Apparently, not far from the truth!