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- From: abrown@hpcvcec.cv.hp.com (Allen Brown)
- Subject: Re: How to Explore Mars
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:18:33 GMT
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- > I wonder about 'blending' the two philosiphies... Imagine that you had
- > one large, agile, and reasonably intelligent robot, and say, six or so
- > smaller less sophisticated ones all linked together via some sort of
- > network (on a radio link maybe?).
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- It costs roughly twice as much to develop and deploy two robot designs
- as one. Can we afford this? What other project do we have to cut?
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