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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Shape Changing Robotics - Animations
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 16:37:12 GMT
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simonpe@ruby.ed.ac.uk (Simon Perkins) writes:
>In a dull moment just now, natural curiosity got the better of healthy
>scepticism and I actually went and downloaded these things (you'll
>need to find unzip and xflick from somewhere to view them on a UNIX
>workstation). For a while there I thought perhaps Joseph was well on
>the way to solving all of robotics and AI in a single stroke, but
>having seen the animations I think I can breathe easy again...

     Maybe Mark Yin will upload his video, which he showed at the
IEEE Robotics conference.  He really has built a shape changing robot.

     And, of course, there's the film version of ichael Creighton's
"Demon Seed".

					John Nagle

