null@rimfaxe.diku.dk (Niels Ull Jacobsen) (09/06/90)
As far as I remember, this thread started off by someone asking which robot technologies had the most "potential". And someone else mentioned, among other things, high accuracy manipulators. Now I didn't quite get why this technology would be so terrible important. I mean, where do you actually need to have robots operating at 0.01 mm exactness ? Perhaps in assembling some electronics, but aren't a lot of this going on chips anyway ? Personally, I would think that areas like computer-vision and self-mobility are more prosperous. But perhaps I've overseen something. I read this group for fun and haven't done any actual work on robots. But couldn't you guys hurry up and invent an automatic vacuum-cleaner/duster ? I hereby offer my college chamber as a beta-test site (certainly a "target-rich environment"!) Niels Ull Jacobsen, Inst. of Datalogy, U of Copenhagen. null@diku.dk (Speaking from the void ..)