The room we moved our robotics group into was the university's old metrology lab -- lovely air-conditioning and humidity control natch. The cupboards were another matter, including a venerable open container of mercury that, we discovered was used of old for mirroring flats for optical testing of surfaces with a sodium lamp and a knife-edge. This was a bit flatter than most surface plates need to be but it was a metrology lab, not a workshop.
Oooh, real climate control, nice. My robotics group always ended up with crap lab space in the sub-sub-basement, but that's what happens when you don't really have a source of funding.
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