"Over the years, people at Carnegie Mellon University have done just about everything imaginable with their robots. Everything, that is, but count them. Enter Heather Knight, a first-year doctoral student in robotics from Boston who arrived this fall from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... she resolved to count every last one, embarking on the university's first-ever Robot Census. She's at 547 robots after several weeks of counting." - Christopher Chung