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From: gizzo@aisun2.ai.uga.edu (Gregory Izzo [MSAI])
Subject: Robot wanted for Artificial intelligence
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 20:54:09 GMT
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I'm posting this request on behalf of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)
program at the University of Georgia. Since the program here is 
theory/programming based we don't have any robotic hardware to
experiment with. We'd like to get some kind of mobile robot to
experiment with task planning among other things.
Our intention is to use it as the instrument to carry out AI
experiments rather than to study its construction and 
hardware aspects.I think the ideal thing we're looking for
is a mobile device which  can be controlled by a high level language
(preferrably one of the standard AI languages - Prolog, 
Lisp - if not then maybe C). 
I don't think for our purposes it makes a difference wether the
robot can be directly programmed or is simply a hardware
peripheral connected to a computer. 

Does anyone have any suggestions/comments/opinions about this 
approach? We've tossed around the idea of a HERO-1, would this
be appropriate? Are there other more suitable robots for this task?
Are we asking for a million dollar machine? (our price range
is only a few thousand dollars). I'm sorry to say that we
don't have anyone skilled in the magic of electronics or we might
be inclined to build some kind of Frankenstein ourselves.

Anyone with any kind of response can send e-mail to me at the 
address below.


Thanks for your help.


-[Greg Izzo - gizzo@aisun1.ai.uga.edu]----------------------------------------
"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And
 East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them
 like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
 Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know."
                                --Groucho Marx, "Animal Crackers"
