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| Listen guys, I'm not playing around with a "Building toy" here, look, (URL) working - creating on this scale, you begin to demand the highest preformance from all aspects of Lego. Eric "Legomaster" Sophie (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) GPS wouldn't work. Even though the government disabled Selective Availability last year, commercial GPS still doesn't achieve an accuracy better than several meters. I would imagine that for GPS to be suitable in such a competition, it would (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I must sadly agree with you, Steve... Though what Dean suggests would bring some real technological ingenuity to a drab genre, no fully-autonomous robotic device is going to beat a human-controlled telerobotic device for quite some time. [And I will (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It's not the unit price, but the primary motivation for Lego products: It's a toy for kids. Yes, it has found some applications in education and amateur robotics, but it's still a toy. To build exact mechanisms, you not only have to deal with (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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