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From: srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Consumer Robots?
Message-ID: <457@modcomp.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:50:42 GMT
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I'd like to find out more about "consumer robots".   I recently saw an
electronics catalog that had three different "robots".  One would move until
it bumped into something and then would go off in a different direction.
Another would change direction when you whistle.  The third would follow
black lines on white pieces of paper.

I'd appreciate any information I could get about this subject.  (Magazines,
catalogs, equipment sources, etc).  What's the best place to get equipment
to play around with these things?  Through Heathkit?  How much will a good 
"starter system" cost?

Thanks for any information you can provide!

Steve
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"The Video Toaster will do for video editing what shiny spheres and checkered
surfaces did for 3D modeling."  -- John Foust
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