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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!ucsu!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!fcrary
  3. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  4. Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov8.064256.7682@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
  8. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  9. References: <1992Nov1.124016.12004@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Nov3.032649.48720@datamark.co.nz> <1992Nov6.160447.12613@ke4zv.uucp>
  10. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:42:56 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Nov6.160447.12613@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
  14. >>But wouldn't the robots been discussed here be operated remotely by
  15. >>ground based people.  This way, there is no need to program much AI
  16. >>into the system.  
  17.  
  18. >That isn't robotics, it's teleoperation. That's available now. The
  19. >Shuttle has the Canadarm and so will Freedom. They're operated on
  20. >site because the maximum 7 second communications delay through the
  21. >relay satellites is too much for real time assembly from the ground.
  22. >Robots have autonomy, at least of a limited kind. 
  23.  
  24. Is anyone looking into robots with very limited autonomy? That is,
  25. under direction from a human, but able to execute instructions on
  26. their own for periods of, say, ten seconds?
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  28.                                          Frank Crary
  29.                                          CU Boulder
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