The robot will be controlled to passive an obstacle about 2 3 cm high on a small laboratory ground.
To support the development of such requirements, useful guidelines are provided for test and evaluation of airborne laser systems including laboratory, ground and flight test activities.
Dr. Marburger said notions of undiscovered contamination off the laboratory grounds were unfounded.
A Long Island Rail Road spur that runs onto the laboratory grounds is used for removing parts of the graphite reactor.
The program could also have been used to predict radioactive emissions caused by fires on the laboratory grounds.
In one experiment, Tesla powered lights in his laboratory grounds remotely from a transmitter coil many metres away.
But decommissioning the laboratory's graphite research reactor and removing contaminated soil on the laboratory grounds will would be delayed, he said.
In 1977, the La Mesa fire burned part of the laboratory grounds, and a 1996 fire, accidentally ignited by campers, devastated some 15,000 acres of nearby forest.
An initial proposal for excavating contaminated sediments at the headwaters, which are on the laboratory grounds, was put aside after criticisms that it would destroy wetlands and stir up embedded contaminants.
Mr. Crescenzo said that work would soon begin on excavating, disposing of and replacing a layer of silt from the bed of the Peconic River on the laboratory grounds that is contaminated with mercury, PCB's and cesium 137.
Radioactive contamination has been found on the laboratory grounds and in the nearby Peconic River over the years, fueling concerns when the Department of Energy decided in 2003 to allow the reactor to remain in place for 87,000 years, until its longest-lived isotope had decayed.
