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- From: demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Neuron chips for robotics
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 16:52:29 GMT
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- In article <ceb.716461157@reading> ceb@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Colin Bridgewater) writes:
- >brian@mdavcr.mda.ca (Brian Lemire) writes:
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- >> Is anyone using (or considering using) Echelon's Neuron chip for
- >>robotics work ?
- ...
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- >Reading University's Department of Cybernetics has a project starting to
- >do just this, joint with British Petroleum. BP donated one of their System 20
- >Cartesian robots and Echelon have given us a massive discount on one of their
- >LON Builders.
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- >... A follow-up project will look at using
- >LONs to replace a conventional NC machine controller.
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- >LONs are exciting because they offer functionality and ease-of-use at an
- >exceptionally low cost, both in monetary and in programming terms.
- ...
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- OK, I give up. I came up with two dozen or so 3-word phrases
- that have LON as an acronym, but none seem to be satisfactory
- for this thread. What's a "LON"?
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