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- From: paulos@venezia.berkeley.edu (Eric Paulos)
- Subject: Re: How to Explore Mars
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.085202.15690@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Organization: Robotics Laboratory UC Berkeley
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:52:02 GMT
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- My previous post was inexplicable truncated. Here's the whole post.
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- I believe that many small robots is the only viable method to explore planets
- because it allows redundance as a feasible option. The risks involved in a
- single large robot are far to great to take considering the numerous
- variables involved in planetary exploration. As an example NASA used TWO
- voyagers and TWO martian landers in the mid-seventies. Numerous, small,
- simple robots should be the approach. Again computer architects have
- made the move from CISC to RISC. Now it's time for robotics to do the same!
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