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From: abrown@hpcvcec.cv.hp.com (Allen Brown)
Subject: Re: How to Explore Mars
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> I wonder about 'blending' the two philosiphies... Imagine that you had
> one large, agile, and reasonably intelligent robot, and say, six or so
> smaller less sophisticated ones all linked together via some sort of
> network (on a radio link maybe?).

It costs roughly twice as much to develop and deploy two robot designs
as one.  Can we afford this?  What other project do we have to cut?
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