Sandra Blakeslee who works for the Stanford news service issued
a press release based on what I told her about the Quasar fake robot.
Consequently, various news stories will be based on this release.
My statements to her rely heavily on the CMU investigation and have
no independent source of information except the statement by Reichelt
in response to a San Jose Mercury  reporter's telephoned question.
Reichelt
said it didn't have to be able to tell a cup from a saucer, because
it didn't take anything off the tray.  This blows Reichelt's claim
that his robot can serve a meal and shows that he isn't even careful
to make his claims consistent.
It would be nice to have a careful investigation of Quasar
leading to a full report, but since everyone seems too busy for that,
it seemed to me that saying what I did was better than having no
public response at all from the AI community.