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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Designing for robots, (was a flame fest)
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Date: 23 Jul 90 18:43:03 GMT
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In article <1990Jul22.192126.6656@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> sandin@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu writes:
}hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:
}
}>In article <139060@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
}>automatic teller machine (ATM).  Since ATMs aren't built to be used by
}>robots, I've been gaining some useful insights into the problems involved.

} Ummm....  Why would you want to do this?  I mean, obviously, because you
}can, but really, it seems a little silly...  With the proper application
}of non-robots systems, you can avoid those silly little pieces of paper
}almost entirely, checks and cash.

Note who I work for.  TTI writes all the ATM software for Citicorp.  That
software needs to be thoroughly tested -- preferably in as real world a
manner possible.  One of my robots spent the last two weeks working the
latest release for Citibank, New York.  It ran 24 hours a day for tens of
thousands of sessions doing things that can't be faked with software (and
wouldn't be real world enough if they could).

}	And besides, what would a robot want to buy?

Moly-grease?  Upgraded PROMs? (-:   Note:  I do occasionally find bugs in
the controller firmware.  The manufacturer (CRS Plus) has been very
cooperative in finding and fixing the problems. (Actually, they gave us
the last PROM upgrade free of charge).

-- 
The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@ttidca.tti.com)
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