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From: bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu (Bill Gribble)
Subject: Re: "That's not robotics; that's toy building"
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 20:45:32 GMT
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In article <CBtBHI.38B@cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie) writes:
>Here are a robotics researcher's views on hobby robotics, posted here
>anonymously. I received this via email. I'm posting excerpts with
>permission of the author. 
>
>(The author's views are not necessarily my own. So if you quote this,
>please don't attribute it to me.)

Noted.  The following quote is not Carl Kadie's.

>so, there's my input... as you can probably tell, i'm fairly annoyed
>by the ai community's approach to robotics.  i'm happy for such
>contests to be held, just annoyed by the hype and pretense.

Now let's talk about pretense... it seems to be a subject on which the author 
of the preceding words is an eminent authority.
s
What's the old saw... ``those who can, do...''

Bill Gribble
