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Re: A new sensor idea (perhaps)
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:30:44 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Jeffrey Hazen writes:
> The trick and folly with robotics is anthropomorphic thinking. Even though
> we can use our hand to pick up a quarter, why would you design something
> that complicated for the task?
Exactly. The robot should carry a stack of quarters in a hopper and when it
finds one it should vaporize it and release one of its own internal quarters
into the storage bin.
Now we have reduced the problem to vaporizing a quarter. What about that
ping-pong ball launching technology that was just developed? With a ping-pong
ball railgun you could atomize quarters 10 miles away.
--Ben
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| The trick and folly with robotics is anthropomorphic thinking. Even though we can use our hand to pick up a quarter, why would you design something that complicated for the task? Quarters are rarely found resting on edge..... use a rubber suction (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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