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Message #11543
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Verne & Catherine Rambaud rambaud@worldnet.att.net
Date: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: lobster
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Dang
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Date: Monday, March 06, 2000 9:55 PM
>Subject: Re: lobster
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>i forgot to mention that the most advanced robot . . . .walks. it looks
like a man in a space suit. i think that Mark Tilden goes into robotics
labs with the following conversation. mark: whatcha doin. scientist:
building a robot, its very hard and i need to concentrate. (mark: oh i
build robots too. scientist: shouldn't you be working on it now. mark: na
i still have a week to work on it. scientist: a week what does it do?
follow light ah hahahaha snort ha. mark: ya, but it wouldn't be very
interesting if it only followed light. it also walks and has a complex
behavior. scientist:. . . mark: well im off to finish my robot i started
yesterday, how lond did your first one take to build. scientist : two
years. mark: hahahahaha good talking to you
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>"> I think it doesn't learn it doesn't have enough memory to remeber the
>> lessons ,but if you made it as advanced a small animal it might learn.
>> right now they're less than bugs. and the ants have a queen to direct
>them,
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>Our bots are not necessarily below bugs. In some aspects, they are
superior
>to insects, but in many more, they are much worse. It is in those areas
>that
>we must improve our bots.
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>the robots die when ever they are without power. a goal might be for the
>bot to store extra power in a battery so it lives a while with out light.
>or have multiple batteries that go one when one goes out then include
>memory. it would be like a bug.
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>jeremy
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