Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10626
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Thomas Pilgaard" ascii@hum.auc.dk
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:17:37 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM: Tendency toward miniaturization
> Greetings Thomas,
Greetings Andy :)
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> But I read "Living Machines" as well as read
> about everyone experimenting and creating all these great
> bots and I wonder why RJPs seem to be designed around
> what the bot can handle instead of the opposite!
On behalf of this I think I may have misread your letter and adressed a
different question. And i agree with you fully on the RJP's and we should be
aspiring to make the bots handle it's immediate surroundings regardless of
the smoothness of the surface.
> I like to think that BEAM is capable of so much
> and here I am building a wheeled robot that can handle
> a flat surface (and survive close encounters with my
> socks!).
** LOL **
> I didn't mean to sound all knowing and cast a
> judgement on Photovores, on the contrary it urges my
> mind towards higher goals.
It wasn't my intention to suggest you being so. I apologise.
Cheers and happy BEAM'ing.
Thomas
>
> Andy
> fco@total.net
>
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