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Rats, Robots, And Rescue Follow Up

Dr. Robin Murphy writes "An editorial comparing the proposed roborats with the rescue robots actually used at the WTC response by the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue appeared last month in IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine. A slightly longer version is at Crasar.org. Note that the rescue robots was in Discover Magazine's Top 100 stories of 2002."

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  1. Re:Most Deadly of the Seven Sins -- *SLOTH* by boaworm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We are not lazy, we are more creative. And since there are more rats than humans, the exploration (unlaziness) can be taken to newer levels.

    Btw.. there are many places where humans cant go, but we are not lazy, we are not pleased with not going there. Instead we create new technology that allows us to go even further. How can that be a sin ?

    btw.. i think your find out that lazy human scientists have decided to enslave an entire species of animal (the common sewer rat) is highly inaccurate. There are way too many rats out there ;-)

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    Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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