EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Students from the University of Evansville were unable to compete in a contest in Connecticut because airline security refused to let them board a plane with a small robot they built.
Students Bruce Rahman and Chris Miller and engineering professor James Reising had planned to fly to Hartford, Conn., on Saturday for the Trinity College Firefighting Home Robot Contest, an annual competition with more than 100 teams from several countries.
Employees of Northwest Airlink, a regional division of Northwest Airlines, would not let them take the computer-controlled robot on board.
Rahman said he called the airline more than a week before the flight to find out whether there might be problems with the robot and was told to just come early to have it inspected. He and Miller said Northwest employees were concerned that motors attached to the robot's wheels and magnets inside the motors could disrupt an airplane's electronics.
Damn anti-robotists!
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