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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
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Date: 13 Jul 90 22:15:58 GMT
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In article <138874@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:

>#define FLAME_ON
>THERE IS NO FRIGGING "PEACE DIVIDEND"!

Gee, and here I thought that was comp.robotics...

In reply to your posting about using robots to build a space station
in earth orbit -- there is no reason why the only choice is building
an autonomous robot to do this. The current plans for the US space
station, for example, include a robot arm which one hopes can be run
from the ground, so it can be a 24-hour-a-day worker that never gets
tired. Also, one of the plans for a Mars mission involved putting
humans in orbit of mars, teleoperating robots on the surface. The
robotics people seem to be able to build some very impressive hardware
already, but the software lags a bit behind the humen kind.

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"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
                                              - Dan Bernstein