HP Uses a Robot to Control Energy Costs for Cooling Computers

[Jerry]

Check this out:

Hewlett-Packard Labs "cool team" uses ActivMedia's PatrolBot robot to control energy costs in their model server facility.

HP robot helps data keep its cool

Chandrakant Patel, principal scientist, HP Labs
August 7, 2002, 12:53 PM PT
4 minutes 6 seconds

Chandrakant Patel of HP Labs shows CNET Radio's Desmond Crisis new technologies in development that should help regulate energy use in data centers. One prototype: a robot that keeps watch on rising temperatures.

[Kade P. Cole]

That is too cool. We need to get SIUE to put in a data center like this and a robot.  :-)

[Ryan Lintker]

Here's a senior project idea.  Equip one of the robots with heat sensors and a thermal imaging camera to check the labs and classrooms for excessive heat use.  If the robot catches a person turning the heat up past, say, a balmy 70 degrees, it should take a picture, send it to me, and clamp on to the person's ankle until I arrive to rectify the situation.  Just a thought.