Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Path: brunix!news.Brown.EDU!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber1.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!deep.rsoft.bc.ca!mindlink.bc.ca!a50
From: Cliff_Lum@mindlink.bc.ca (Cliff Lum)
Subject: Re: "That's not robotics; that's toy building"
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 00:50:26 GMT
Message-ID: <28336@mindlink.bc.ca>
Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet News at rsoft.bc.ca)
Lines: 50

> Haslam / Damian Joseph writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <1993Aug20.071046.14924@csc.canberra.edu.au>
> Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 93 07:10:46 Org.  : University of Canberra
>
> In article <24gqla$9j4@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> seed@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Steven
> Seed) writes:
> >In article <1993Aug12.190036.24847@phx.mcd.mot.com> schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com
> (John Schuch) writes:
> >
> >(Some words of wisdom wipped out)
> >
> >>Forth, and finally. The machines built by hobbiests ARE robots. The only
> >>real difference between theirs and yours is the scale of the mission, and
> >>the scale of the budget.
> >>
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >
> >   Amen, Brother!!! Can I get an Amen from all of you out there?!!!
>
> u gotta ahmen from me, that's for sure
> >Steven Seed
> >Machine Intelligence Lab
> >Univerity of Florida
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Disclaimer: My thoughts are my own, for whatever that's worth.
> >
> >seed@mil.ufl.edu
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> = Damian J. K. Haslam     = think i said, but I'm not sure you realise that
> = Computer Engineering    = what you heard is not what i meant. - anon?


In the April 23 1992 Volume 64 No 8 issue of Machine Design, Siemens
engineers are using what looks like an RC model car with a lot of custom
electronics to help develop thier fuzzy logic programming skills.

From the magazine:
" This fuzzy-controlled car is a "living laboratory" to help engineers at
Seimens develop their fuzzy logic programming skills. The entire rule base
takes only two hours to program and includes obstale avoidance and back-up
capabitities.


cliff

