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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Subject: Re: Safety of large mobile robots
Message-ID: <1993Jul3.152855.13165@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
References: <1993Jun29.215740.17141@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <C9K9nr.Ds3@virtual.cuc.ab.ca>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 15:28:55 GMT
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In article <C9K9nr.Ds3@virtual.cuc.ab.ca> jonathan@virtual.cuc.ab.ca (Jonathan Levine) writes:
>In article <1993Jun29.215740.17141@comp.lancs.ac.uk> davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles) writes:
>>Can anyone give me any information on what techniques are being used with 
>>regards to safety of large mobile robots.
>
>Safety?  We don't need no stinkin' safety!

Well, I hope you and everyone else will remember that if you are ever involved
in an accident with a robot.

I have been hit by a promotional robot (which hurt) and I've also been
hit in the back of my head buy a concrete counter-balance belonging to 
a two axis tracking mechanism (I still have a scar from it three years
ago). The later could quite easily have killed me. 

If future exploitation of large mobile robots are not to be seriously
handicapped, then safety issues will have to be addressed.

Davei
