Working out of the University of California, San Diego, Smarr is constructing a campus full of high-speed wireless connections, supercomputers, nanotechnology labs and wall-size flat-panel screens.

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Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride. (See video below.) The robot, made by Menlo Park, Calif.

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