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- From: charles@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Charles Jacob Cohen)
- Subject: Re: Robot juggling survey
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.144844.6266@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:48:44 GMT
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- In article <1jm8n2INN3jm@gap.caltech.edu> allenk@ugcs.caltech.edu (Allen Knutson) writes:
- >I got the impression from talking to Koditschek that he had very weird
- >ideas about juggling (i.e. that an experienced juggler wouldn't have).
- >I don't remember precisely what, now; one thing I do remember is that
- >in the robotics applications they were after, it was much less important
- >to be able to juggle many, than to be able to recover from really grievous
- >error. And indeed, their machine could fix situations no human could.
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- I've offered again and again to teach Prof. Koditschek to juggle, but
- he isn't interested. Then again, will all of his areas of interest,
- he doesn't have time. He does however, appreciate jugglers, and even
- likes to see me juggle on occation :)
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- - Chuck
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