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- From: misha@ai.mit.edu (Mike Bolotski)
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- Subject: Re: Small vs. Large Rovers (was Re: How to Explore Mars)
- Date: 9 Jan 93 17:58:00
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu's message of 9 Jan 93 10:13:13 GMT
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- >>> On 9 Jan 93 10:13:13 GMT, yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) said:
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- BY> I'm impressed with what the Ambler group has accomplished, and very
- BY> impressed with what the Erebus group accomplished in a very short
- BY> amount of time. I think they deserve a great deal of credit, despite
- BY> the unfortunate glitch that ended the test.
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- I'm sorry, I must have been napping during the Erebus accomplishment.
- What did the trip to Erebus do that couldn't have been done on a 30
- meter slag heap near Pittsburgh? Teleoperation? That could be done
- with a programmable delay.
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- The truly impressive accomplishment is that the robot was built in one
- year. Everyone in the project deserves recognition for that.
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- But in my opinion, the choice of testing area and testing methodology
- was incredibly poor, serving only as a media magnet. Imagine a
- biologist performing an experiment while juggling test tubes on a
- trampoline. If the experiment worked, it would be truly impressive.
- Not because of the scientific results, but because the experimenter
- overcame the completely unnecessary self-imposed barriers.
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- Mike Bolotski MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- misha@ai.mit.edu Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-8170
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