[ale] robots

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at dvsg.sciatl.com
Wed May 22 14:38:57 EDT 2002


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> Who cares?  Certainly they don't - and as long as my bots have legs that
> are too strong for the blades to cut and some means of detecting and
> correcting a blade jam (sense blade motion; reverse blade motion if
> blade is stuck), what do I care if they bump into each other?
> 
> > Or as you discussed having real dumb
> > avoidance/collision behavior.
> 
>   My mowbots can be safely investigated,
> sniffed at, and even peed on by cats, dogs, and kids.

I'm curious about something here - I may have missed some of the discussion -
but it seems to me that the issue of bot collision and kidproofing you describe
seem to contradict each other - the bots are tough enough to not be harmed by
a leg getting into the cutter, but the cutter is not going to cut the nose off
a curious dog?

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