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Re: robotica on TLC
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 23:02:20 GMT
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I think it would be a much more painful experience to watch autonimous
robots out there bashing away at each other. Both from an entertainment and
philosophical level.
From an entertainment standpoint, I imagine it would be painfully dull.
Given the prize money I can't imagine the quality of the robots would be
very good. I envision bouts where competators never engage each other, but
rather blunder into obstacles as they blindly wander around.
From a philsophical standpoint, is this what you want robots to be doing?
It's way to Terminator for my tastes. I know that cleaning up hazardous
waste, freeing humans from performing monotonous repetative tasks, or doing
interplanetary exploration are not great entertainment, but they are better
science.
But if you really wan't to change this "Battle Bots", "Robotica" trend, quit
your whining and enter the fray. An entry with a little on board
intelligence could probably clean house. Navagation seems to be a problem
with. Something that makes it easier to move the robot around in more
controlled manner would be a great benefit. Target recognition and
automatic deployment of the offensive weapon(s) could also be a big
advantage. And once you started cleaning up, the competition would have to
follow your lead.
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| I came here to post about Robotica, but I should've known it was done already! But I'll still discuss it:) Dean, I agree completely. This is for entertainment, and not just entertainment for robotic designers, but for the public. I actually like (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I think that's a bit extreme...but I think it would be quite hard to televise. a *real* robotic challenge. (...) Yes. Also, you'd need ways to make the two robots mutually detectable - a big IR emitter on top of each one...but to make it a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) [snip] Indeed! They are not by ANY definition robots. When I saw the spots a long time ago on TLC hinting at a new robotics competition, I visited the site and signed up. I actually spent a fair amount of time jumping through strange hoops, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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