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Subject:	Re: Anyone been watching the Robo Olympics on BBC2 this week?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.loc.uk
Date:	Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:31:49 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Huw Millington writes: > There's been a few RCX-based entries, but none of them 100% lego: a > rope-climber, a paddler and a floor-display gymnast. > > Noe of them won, though :-) I saw some of it yesterday.. is that 'Techno Games' that you're talking about? I found it really infuriating the way it tried to be flashy with quick sucessive shots, meaning that I couldn't actually look at the robots, and see what they did - I thought I glimpsed some LEGO, but I couldn't be sure! <grumble>It wouldn't have been hard either, with minute long interviews with the designers, surely a few seconds of close-up on the ROBOT wouldn't have been unreasonable?</grumble> Richard

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		Re: Anyone been watching the Robo Olympics on BBC2 this week?
(...) been (...) They could have shortened the painfully contrived interviews with human atheletes and concentrated more on the designs of the robots. Use of the video fast-forward through the interviews reduced each programme to around 10 minutes. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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		Anyone been watching the Robo Olympics on BBC2 this week?
There's been a few RCX-based entries, but none of them 100% lego: a rope-climber, a paddler and a floor-display gymnast. Noe of them won, though :-) Huw (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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