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From: jpexg@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: Rules or Contact for Robot Sumo-Wrestling Competition, please.
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Date: 19 Jan 91 06:11:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan18.185918.18933@watmath.waterloo.edu> mwtilden@watmath.waterloo.edu (Mark W. Tilden) writes:
>In article <1991Jan14.041341.3107@watmath.waterloo.edu> mwtilden@watmath.waterloo.edu (Mark W. Tilden) writes:
>>
>>On Jan 6th, The New York Times ran a front page feature on a robot
>>sumo-wrestling contest that occurred recently in Japan.  
>
......
>  Although the robot must have a self-contained power 
>source, competitors can be controlled remotely by human operators or 
>an on-board intelligence.  All competitors seem to be cubical tanks
>of various types. 
>-- 
>Mark Tilden: _-_-_-__--__--_      /(glitch!)  M.F.C.F Hardware Design Lab.

There are two classes of competitors: radio-controlled and autonomous.

It would be hard to come up with anything more calculated to excite the 
Japanese imagination than a fight between electronic gadgets.

John Purbrick