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(...) Looks like toys to me. Really incredibly cool toys! Tilman's post supporting my "Toy" claim mentioned how torsionally flimsy the technic axles are. This could be used to take the backlash out of a gear train. Pull out four 48 tooth gears, two (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) 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. (...) My favorite (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Even without that, it helps. My 10 year old son used to tell the kids at school that he built Lego robots that could really drive around and do things and the other kids would roll their eyes and mouth "Geek...Nerd..." etc. Now they are *VERY* (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Differential GPS (where you add a 'ground station') gives you plenty of precision - even without the low order bit scrambling thing. It's not good for telling you where you are relative to the planet - but relative to the ground station, it (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) small (BANGS HEAD) THAT WAS IT!!! lithium grease. man oh man why couldn't i think of that. it evens quiets things very well. mike "hitting his head" fusion (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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