Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00462
To: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:07:43 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: hmmm...i wonder which subject
Steven Bolt wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Noam Rudnick wrote:
>
> > The one question of value (in my opinion) which wasn't answered
> > was what real world jobs can "BEAM" robots take on? No one
> > really came up with a good answer.
>
> With a little luck, they teach their builders something of value.
> Discounting that, nothing at all, so far. Note that the same can be
> said about almost every small mobile robot.
This may be true, but only on a per-design level.
There are some small robot designs that have been (are being) produced
in large numbers for real world applications ranging from Education to
military applications.
I think that research related small robots still outnumber hobby robots,
but its clearly time for the first robot census!
> > Yeah we can say mine disposal
>
> Hardly a proven application and afaik not being funded anymore.
Tell that to IS Robotics.
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