Selected News Media

• "ScreenSavers" TechTV (live syndicated cable show) 7 minute feature, live interview of Mark, Craig and Sam plus a demonstration of PolyBot G1v4 with Digital clay.
  Nov. 28, 2001
• TechTV News, 2 minute live interview as robotics search and rescue expert on the use of robots at WTC after September 11th.
  Sept. 12, 2001
• "Special Robots", KBC (Korean National TV), Show about latest developments in robotics, clips of robot and interview.
  Aug. 10, 2001
• CNET Radio, ~5 minute live interview about Modular Robots.
  March 28, 2001 (repeated taped version multiple times)
• BBC Radio interview, Pallab Ghosh, on the web as "Snakes, spiders, cups and hammers," Pallab Ghosh, BBC News
  Feb. 27, 2001 (aired multiple times over the week)
• "Your flexible Friend", The Economist, 1 page article on PolyBot
  Feb. 22, 2001
• "Artificial and intelligent snakes developed by NASA" Engineering World,
  Dec. 2000 p4
• "Heavy metal", PCPlus magazine #171(UK),
  Dec. 2000
• "Inside a research lab; The Modular Robotics Project", Dr. Dobbs Journal
  Nov. 2000
• "Robot Snake" (translated from Turkish) Cumhuriyet Newspaper (Major newpaper in Turkey)
  Oct. 5, 2000
• "Changing Gears", Monuah Janah, Red Herring Magazine
  Aug. 2000
• "Shape-Shifting Robots", Geoff Burchfield, Quantum ABC Television (Australia)
  Aug. 17, 2000
• "Robots", ABC World News Tonight, Feature on Xerox PARC with PolyBot footage
  Aug. 11, 2000
• "Total Autonomy, The next generation of thinking machines", Robert Strohmeyer, Smart Business Magazine,
  Aug. 2000
• "Modular Robot Inventor: Mark Yim" (translated from Korean), Ok-ja Chung _Haute_ (Korean women's fashion magazine), Feature biographic article on Mark Yim
  March 2000
• "Cobra versatil", Superinterrante, Super Junho 2000 (Brazilian Magazine)
  June 2000
• "Robot Watch: Hey PolyBot over here!", Fanella Saunders, Discover Magazine
  May 2000
• "Xerox PARC Digital Clay", Sumi Das, ZDTV Fresh Gear
  March 31, 2000
• "Shapes of the Future", Daniel Sorid, Feature article on PolyBot, Lexington Herald-Leader
  March 19, 2000
• "The all-terrain robot arrives", Daniel Sorid, Feature article on PolyBot, The Toronto Star
  March 19, 2000
• "Promising Robots Shift Shape", Daniel Sorid, Feature article on PolyBot, Charlotte Observer
  March 10, 2000
• "Xerox PARC Modular Robotic Systems", Sumi Das, ZDTV Fresh Gear
  March 10, 2000
• "Shape-Shifting Robots from Xerox", Daniel Sorid, New York Times, Circuits section,
  March 9, 2000
• "SF-robot stapje dichterbij" PT Embedded Systems (Dutch magazine)
  March 2000
• "PARC: Xerox's Global Playground", Craig Matsumoto, Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times),
  Jan. 31, 2000
• "Xerox studies self-assembling modular robots", Sunny Bains, EE Times,
  Jan. 17, 2000
• "Meet Future Cops", CBS Evening News w/Dan Rather, feature on DARPA Distributed Robotics Program including video clips of PolyBot
  Nov. 29, 1999
• "1999 Industry Hall of Fame, Xerox PARC", Computer Reseller News, Xerox PARC inducted in hall of fame, photo of Mark Yim with PolyBot,
  Nov. 14, 1999
• "Shapeshifting Robot in the works", Jack P. Smith, ABC World News Tonight, 2 minute science and technology feature including interviews and clips of PolyBot G1,G2 and digital clay,
  Nov. 12, 1999
• "The shape of things to come", Elisabeth Weise, USA Today
  Sept. 29, 1999
• "@discovery.ca", Alix MacDonald, producer, Discovery Channel Canada, 7 minute segment featuring PolyBot G1
  May 13, 1999
• "Robots to the Rescue", Jane Black, BBC News Online, Sci Tech.
  April 10, 1999
• "Mobots to the Rescue", Bob Buderi, UPSIDE Magazine Today,
  March 12, 1999
• "Robots will manage your network" Sandra Gittlen, CNN,
  Jan. 28, 1999
• "Smaller Pieces, Smarter Robots"(cached web page), Bob Sullivan, MSNBC online , 1 page feature on PolyBot and Digital Clay including photos and video PolyBot, digital clay and Polypod
  Nov. 27, 1998