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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Speaking of robotics...
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Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 02:46:27 EDT
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> I am not familiar with the readership of net.ai, but it seems to me that (un-
> less this is already the case) robotics discussions could continue in net.ai
> until a significant portion of the newsgroup is seen to contain robotics
> articles, then someone can go ahead and create net.robotics.  Note I didn't
> say net.ai.robotics because a lot of robotics discussion is not necessarily
> related to ai, and robotics has a wide enough range of subject matter to
> warrant its own group.
> 
> How does everyone feel about this?

If only robotics were as simple as AI...  Besides sensing the
environment, robots also have to manipulate:  programming them is a 3D
animation problem, and has nothing to do with AI.

I am in favor of net.robotics.
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA
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