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Even conventional industrial robots are becoming safer to work around, making them more likely to collaborate with humans.

Team workers: An employee at Nymann Teknik, a machine shop in Hobro, Denmark, works with a UR5 robot from Universal Robots.

Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which is safe enough to be a surprisingly popular means of feline transportation. Industrial robots often sit behind metal fences, their mechanical arms a blur of terrific speed and precision; to prevent serious injury to humans (or worse), these robots are normally shut down when anyone enters their workspace.

In recent years, however, the fences have started to disappear as a gentler breed of robot has entered the workplace and new features have made even conventional industrial robots safer to be around. This shift is altering the dynamics of labor in many factories and workshops, allowing humans and robots to work together in efficient new ways.

Human-robot collaboration is gaining an enormous amount of momentum, says Henrik Christensen, executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech. In the past, robots have penetrated 10 percent of the industry. Theres still 90 percent of the industry, and thats where you need collaborative robots.

The Robotic Industries Association, a U.S. trade group, last week organized its first conference dedicated to collaborative robots, at which robot manufacturers and customers gathered to discuss the trend. Christensen was a keynote speaker.

The most prominent of the simpler, safer robots introduced in the last few years is Baxter, developed by the Boston-based startup Rethink Robotics (see This Robot Could Transform Manufacturing). Baxter, which has two arms and a cartoonish face shown on a touch-screen display, is very easy and safe to work with. To program the robot, a worker simply moves its arms through an operation to show it what to do. And should anyone get in the robots way, it will either stop or, at worst, hit the person too gently to leave a bruise. Most important, Baxter is remarkably cheap, costing just $22,000 when many conventional robots cost several hundred thousand dollars.

Another robot maker, the Danish company Universal Robots, offers small, more conventional-looking robot arms that are similarly cheap ($31,000 each), simple, and safe to operate. But these robot arms also offer greater precision and programmability, meaning they can perform complex work and either step in for a human worker or work alongside one. They can quickly be repurposed for a new job without requiring much reprogramming.

Edward Mullen, national sales manager for Universal Robots, says the company has sold around 2,500 robots since launching in 2009, and he estimates that 80 percent are running unguarded. Many of the robots have been sold to small or medium-sized companies that do not otherwise use robots. RSS Manufacturing, a company in Costa Mesa, California, that produces custom automobile and plumbing components, uses Universal Robots machines for jobs including manipulating pipes in a tube bender and producing valves on a milling machine. The companys production runs can be as short as 24 hours, so the robots have to be swapped quickly between different tasks. None of the robots are placed behind safety fences.

Theres still plenty of work thats too arduous or precise for Baxter or Universal Robots machines. But more powerful conventional robots are starting to work in closer proximity to humans, too. New sensors and software allow these machines to predict collisions and avoid them as humans go about their work.

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It's a basic truth about theater: the best plays are those that are both specific and universal, revealing vivid details about individuals or cultures or historical moments, while giving a glimpse of the common thread that connects us to the characters whose lives are unfolding onstage.

The late August Wilson was among the best practitioners of this art. His "Century Cycle," 10 plays spanning a hundred years, one for each decade, is rooted in the larger African-American experience. The plays are filled with fury and frustration, humor and hope, and recount the heartbreak and resilient spirit of a segment of American society. At the same time, the plays are about fathers and daughters, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives, friends and foes. They explore getting ahead in the world, finding something to believe in, making and losing money, finding and losing love, discovering and losing a sense of one's value and purpose.

As such, August Wilson's plays are about everyone.

His Pulitzer-winning Fences, set in the 1950s, captures that sense of universality in a vibrant, emotionally driven production at the Marin Theatre Company. Directed with graceful attention to the connective tissue that binds a family together, Fences tells the story of Troy Maxson. A proud, deeply angry former Negro Leagues baseball player, Troy is at odds with his teenage son, Cory (Eddie Ray Jackson), who's been offered a shot at a college football scholarship.

Troy is one of the great characters of the modern American stage: petty, mean-spirited and unapologetically unlikable one moment, then gentle, generous and loving the next. Played with combustible complexity by Carl Lumbly, Troy is an achingly believable character, whose strengths and flaws are all frustratingly raw and real.

As his wife, Rose, Margo Hall gives one of the great performances of the year. As aware of Troy's flaws as anyone, Rose also sees what's good and beautiful about him, perhaps even more so than he does. Her gradual evolution from help-mate to standalone powerhouse, a progression that unfolds right alongside Troy's staunch, bitter obstinacy, is absolutely amazing to watch.

Some fences, we are told, are built to keep people out, while others are built to keep people in. In Wilson's shimmering masterpiece, he creates a fence that somehow contains all of us at once.

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Team Results 1. Dartmouth 36 2. Cornell 34 3. Brown 32 4. Princeton 27 5. Yale 15 6. Penn 14

ITHACA, N.Y. Freshman Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Qualifier Kabisa Baughen (Sarasota, Fla.) was crowned the open fences champion and placed second in the intermediate flat championship class to lead Brown equestrian to a third-place team finish at the Ivy Show at Cornell on Saturday.

The Bears saw eight riders pin on the day but finished just four points off the lead, with Dartmouth earning its fourth Ivy Show championship in program history to compliment a team bid to the IHSA National Championship.

After taking just two team points in the single-class open flat, Brown stormed back in the intermediate flat on the strength of point rider Baughen's blue ribbon in 5A and senior Mieke Lynch's (Wilmington, Del.) second place finish in 5B.

Trailing first-place Cornell by three points, Baughen emerged victorious again in open fences 8A to take the championship title, earn high point rider and launch the Bears into first place with 14 points. Baughen earned a call back for the flat championship and rode to a second-place finish, taking the prestige despite no team points being awarded for the flat championship class.

Senior Sophia Rabb (Weston, Mass.) placed second in intermediate fences 6A to gain entry to the championship, where she placed third to help Brown jump to 16 points. Senior Laura Kirk (Needham, Mass.) took third in novice fences 4A but Cornell overtook the Bears for the lead with 23 points to Brown's 19.

Heading to novice flat, sophomore Emma Hall (Sheridan, Wyo.) finished third in 3A and Kirk pinned third in 3B as the point rider to give the Bears 23 points. Cornell and Dartmouth continued to excel with 28 and 25 team points, respectively, proceeding to walk trot canter.

Freshman Chloe Hequet (London, England) placed second in walk trot canter 2BB despite a late canter and 2A point rider Alex VanHattum (Kentwood, Mich.) secured a critical blue ribbon for seven points, pushing the Bears over the 30-point plateau.

With Cornell in first (31), Brown in second (30) and Dartmouth in third (29), the show would come down to walk trot. The Big Green point rider took first and the Bears placed fifth, resulting in Dartmouth leaping into the championship slot with 36 points.

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After Decimus had wound up the last campaign with two wins, trainer Jeremy Scott decided to send him novice chasing this term.

However, after three dismal efforts he was switched back to hurdles and has now obliged in two of his last three races.

The combination of forcing tactics and better ground saw Decimus (14/1) hold last week's Cheltenham scorer and 6/4 favourite Kingsmere in the Racing UK-sponsored handicap hurdle over three miles.

Both Kingsmere and One Conemara held every chance at the final flight, but the seven-year-old would not be denied as 5lb claimer Matt Griffiths guided him home by a length and a quarter and the same.

"He just seems to relish this better ground. That seems to have made the difference to him," said Scott.

"He seemed to hate jumping fences so our chasing campaign didn't go terribly well which did allow his hurdle mark to drop a little bit. He's been able to make use of it.

"I imagine we'll keep going during the summer. There's no point racing him in the winter. He doesn't like soft ground so we might as well kick on and see how we get on."

There was a two-day ban (May 6-7) for Kingsmere's rider Jake Greenall for overuse of the whip.

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Snow fell heavily in the winter of 1994, coating Glendo Reservoir and drifting over fences.

A small herd of pronghorns living east of the reservoir migrated west, looking for better forage and thinner snow. They walked on top of the frozen lake, wandered over covered fences and crossed Interstate 25, said Mark Zornes, Green River wildlife coordinator for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, whoat the time worked in Wheatland.

Then the snow melted, and they couldnt get home. Theyve been stuck there ever since, he said. That is the problem fences cause pronghorn. But if the fences werent there, wed have killed them all on the interstate. Youre darned if you do, darned if you dont.

Antelopes didnt evolve to jump like deer or elk, Zornes said. They will walk up and down a fence until they die.

Barriers such as fences continue slicing through antelope ranges, forcing them to live in smaller and smaller areas. And it may be starting to take its toll.

While seemingly abundant across Wyomings plains, pronghorns no longer outnumber people in the Cowboy State. Researchers know that hard winters and drought have played a role in lowering their numbers, but they also want to know to what degree the species' inability to migrate has contributed to the decline.

Pronghorns, like many species in the West, were hunted to near extinction at the turn of the 20th century. Conservation efforts brought them back, and by the mid-2000s, their numbers held strong around 560,000 animals -- more than Wyomings human population.

Then hit the winter of 2007-08, a prolonged drought and another bad winter in 2010-11.

Their numbers dropped to just over 400,000 in 2012 and about 367,000 in 2013, reported Grant Frost, a wildlife biologist for the Biological Services.

Pronghorns have endured hard winters and drought in the past. The problem is that they arent rebounding as they normally would, said Tony Mong, a wildlife biologist for the Game and Fish Department.

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