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Re: robotica on TLC
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 07:14:17 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, "Russell C. Brown [RR-1]" <rcbrown@austin.rr.com> writes:
> 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 be delighted if someone shows me this message
> in 100 years to show how little foresight I had.]
I agree that fully autonomous robots wouldn't stand much of a chance. But I
think it would be possible to create some rather impressive 'bots that used
on board intelligence in conjunction with input from a human operator.
> If the idea is to make the science cool, I wish they would actually describe
> the machines. BattleBots frustrated me terribly because it was littered with
> cheesy commentary but never explained the inventiveness that went into these
> contraptions. It was stuff like "contains 2 wheelchair motors" but never how
> they were employed--obnoxious because most of the robots have two wheelchair
> motors yet they produce very different results.
My favorite part of the program is when "Double-D" Donna DeEnrico is
interviewing some teenage kid at the end of a bout, and the poor kid looks
like he's desperately searching for a rock to climb under. I also wouldn't
mind seeing Deadblow drive it's hardened steel spike into Bil Dwyer's
forehead. I'm sure the blow wouldn't be fatal.
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| (...) I think they are already doing that. Watch Battlebots carefully and you'll see many of the contestants aren't using a model aircraft type radio control - but instead have a computer joystick plugged into a laptop. Once in a while you'll see (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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