An "out with the old, in with the new" programming strategy could allow the network to get rid of those ratings-troubled programs and load up on a new crop of potential winners instead.

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As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.

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