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Immobile Robots

Posted by michael on from the what-you-get-when-the-servos-break-down dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Wade Roush wrote a long and well-documented article for the Technology Review about this new concept, the immobot, short for "immobile robot." He gives different industrial examples, from NASA to the water utility in Porto Alegre, and from Toyota cars to some new Xerox photocopiers. And he looks at the programming model behind the immobots. No "heuristic" programs here, but model-based programs instead. Check this column for details." The original article has more information.

3 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. Stories have been sucking by unterderbrucke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry, but this story sucks.
    "Oh my god, IMMOBILE ROBOTS!?!?
    I've never heard of those!"

  2. Wildly offtopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sorry this is so offtopic, but could anyone tell me if it's possible to get Konquerer to show directory listings by date? Please post anon so you don't lose karma.

    (Losing karma by helping. How ironic.)

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