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Robot Rides Camel
Filed in: Gadgets — April 23rd, 2005
The 60-pound robot has hold of the reins, but it isn’t the brains guiding the camel. A human handler prompts the racer via remote control, using a joystick to issue a quartet of instructions–forward, backward, sideways and whip action. The machinery also includes shock absorbers and a GPS system. To help keep the camels in their comfort zone, the robot’s jersey is sprayed with perfume traditionally used by trainers, the AP said.
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Sorry, I can’t understand why make the ivestment to create robot to ride a camel… I see no point about it. 
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April 23rd, 2005 at 7:52 pm
some parts of arab world use children to race the poor camel ( as their jockey), so, creating robot will stop them from hiring children for such stupid idea.
August 11th, 2005 at 10:02 pm
How about because they have been using small children, often times purchasing them from their parents, or kidnapping them to use as jockeys and then starving them to keep them at a low weight to ride the camel! I think it is a marvelous idea and saving some of these poor children!