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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: IR projects
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Date: Tue, 05 May 92 17:32:50 GMT
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References: <23559@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Apr28.144021.8516@fct.unl.pt> <23999@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992May5.064303.16386@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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       Those little differential IR units are a good idea for short-range
work.  The Stanford "blue hand" had such units in its fingers, in the
mid 1980s.  For ranges needed to control grasping, it's a good technology.

					John Nagle
