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- From: sal@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Marcos Salganicoff)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: How to Explore Mars
- Message-ID: <104239@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 21:28:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.085202.15690@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1993Jan9.181135.21304@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan9.181135.21304@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
- > When we have lots of mobile robots working reliably on Earth, modifying
- >one for planetary exploration will be a straightforward job. But why
- >waste the research resources working on a low-volume low-payoff application
- >like Mars exploration?
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- Yes, but if you get terrestrial locomotion, manipulation, perception
- and navigation down pat, that has benefits not just for Martian
- exploration. You will coincendentally have many subtasks mastered
- which are needed for roving around unhappy nuclear power plants,
- buildings on fire, and chemical waste dumps like Hanford, to name but
- a few terrestrial scenarios (and large markets).
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- Marcos Salganicoff
- GRASP LAB
- UPENN
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