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From: rjk@mgweed.UUCP (Randy King)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Speaking of robotics...
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Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 10:00:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 12 10:00:48 1984
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Here's my "yes" vote on robotics.  I spent all day visiting over
2000 robotic displays at McCormick Place in Chicago last week at
the International Machine Tool Show.

Let's talk about sub-groups while we're into "net.robots" -
we will definitely need a "net.robots.vision", a field akin
to and as growing as big as the mechanical manipulators.

Inspection for manufacture is a biggie for vision.  I saw a Seiko
robot pick up drill bits, hold them in front of a camera, and
within 100 msec it had decided if the bit was within +/- 0.005.
It then disposed of the bit in the "too big", "too small", or
"just right" bin.

This stuff is hot and saves *big* bucks!!!  Let's do it!!

						Randy King
						AT&T-CP@MG
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