Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00090
To: "'John A. deVries II'" zozzles@lanl.gov
From: Hyndman hyndmanm@cadvision.com
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:22:10 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM classification
>At 11:07 AM 2/1/99 -0500, dennison wrote:
>>I'd agree, anything remote controlled doesn't count.
>By your definition, then, the robot described by Mark Tilden's patent isn't
>beam: it has an IR receiver that allows you to _remotely_ induce more
>processes into the main loop.
>Offhand, I think there are at least as many definitions of "BEAM" as there
>are readers of this list and as a result you'll never achieve anything
>approaching consensus.
I very much agree with John, and actually a few of Mark's solar rollers
have a little touch sensor on the back of it which unloads the cap. Also
the definition of remote control can be thought of very differently.
Tactile sensors are themselves a simple "remote control", flick of a switch
and something reacts.
Devin
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