Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03513
To: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 01:41:56 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Evolution Comparison
At 12:33 AM 5/22/1999 , Jean auBois wrote:
>:The ScoutWalker walking robot is a simple basic implementation of
>:Mark Tilden's Microcore technology : $300.00
>
>which is a KIT & basically doesn't do anything useful (um, vacuum floors
>for example?) and certainly won't last 5..10 years without being very
>carefully tended. Yeah, I know, it is great for educational purposes, but
>that isn't the point, is it?
That is the point of the kit - to be educational. Not to accomplish any
real-world task EXCEPT to educate.
> I find this to be particularly bothersome
>when one of Mark's papers claimed that -built- walkers ought to cost only
>$100 (which I suppose they would if you do a lot of dumpster diving, but do
>you think that Eureka or one of the other established manufacturers build
>their stuff out of discards?)
Give me $10M and I'll give you $100 robots, ready to go out of the box.
Come on - you know that price drops in volumes, and limited production is
expensive.
>What I want to see is BEAM technology doing some REAL evolution.
So get off your butt and build something to advance the tech rather than
complaining about the lack of "real" evolution. BTW, how's work on "Lurch"
coming along?
-Dave
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