Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!infolog!mark From: mark@infolog.se (Mark Plotnick) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Robots in our Future? Message-ID: <212@infolog.se> Date: 2 Sep 90 11:49:55 GMT References: <1990Aug28.234809.15660@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Aug30.014817.8794@portia.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Infologics, Sollentuna, Sweden Lines: 19 In article <1990Aug30.014817.8794@portia.Stanford.EDU> boehlke@sunrise.stanford.edu (Dan Boehlke) writes: >..................... >Ultra-precision manipulators will be "enabling" technology. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >They will make it possible to produce consumer products that >are impossible to manufacture on a mass-production basis today. >.............................. >............................. What is the state-of-the-art in robot manipulator technology today and how accesible is it? Mark Plotnick, mark@infolog.se Infologics AB Box 91 191 22 Sollentuna, Sweden