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Forget Steel City, we're now Roboburgh
Wednesday, November 24, 1999 By Teresa Lindeman, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Welcome to Roboburgh.
That's the moniker for Pittsburgh that appeared in The Wall Street Journal yesterday, when the business newspaper listed its choices for the nation's 13 hottest high-tech regions.
Hey, no complaints here. America's former steel capital ranked right up there with such powerhouses as Seattle (Billville); Westchester County, N.Y. (Big Blue Country), N.Y.; and Austin (uh, Austin), Texas.
The Journal seemed particularly impressed by robotic activity here in Roboburgh, though an argument could be made that there's a lot happening on the Internet front here as well.
As it has been on the Net scene, Carnegie Mellon University was cited for serving as a springboard for new companies, this time through its Robotics Institute.
"Robots do hazardous waste retrieval. In hospitals, they dispense up to 10,000 doses of medication a day," exclaimed the Journal. "Museums use them as tour guides," as anyone knows who has been to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland or the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center in the Strip District.
Area businesses cited as examples of robo-leaders were McKesson HBOC Automated Healthcare, RedZone Robotics Inc., Mobot Inc., Probotics Inc. and AssistWare Technology Inc.
Strangely enough, there was no mention of Pittsburgh's proud history as a filming site for the 1987 cult classic film "RoboCop."
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