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This Saturday, July 11, 2009, is the next meeting of Dorkbot Southern California:

***** 1:00pm
***** Machine Project
***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street
***** Los Angeles, CA 90026

Here's the line-up of speakers:

Heather Knight Previously with the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, Heather is a Social Roboticist who works at the Jet Propulsion Lab. She will present her work enabling robots to understand nonverbal human gestures and talk about the potentials for interactive technology incorporated into everyday objects, such as clothing.

Jody Zellen
Jody Zellen is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. She works in many media simultaneously making photographs, installations, net art, public art, as well as artists' books that explore the subject of the urban environment.

Xuan "Sean" Li
Sean will show a "Hertzian Explorer" that reveals the invisible electromagnetic waves of computation and communication in information society.

More info here.