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From: park@netcom.com (Bill Park)
Subject: Re: Samsung, Panasonic, Lawn Ranger, Jason Jr., Yashco ?
Message-ID: <1993Feb16.083148.6722@netcom.com>
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Summary: Need info about Yasukawa's teleoperated live power-line maintenance robot 
Keywords: Yasukawa teleoperator power line utility maintenance robot
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In article <1993Feb14.191511.9036@netcom.com> park@netcom.com (Bill
Park) -- that's me -- wrote:

> Can anyone give me the addresses and/or phone numbers for the vendors
> of the following robots, or references to literature describing them?
> ...
>	Yashco (spelling?) power line repair teleoperated robot	

Correct spelling is "Yasukawa."  Briefly mentioned in

Authors: William L. Whittaker, Takeo Kanade
Title: Japan robotics aim for unmanned space exploration
Journal: IEEE Spectrum
Date: December 1990
Pages: 64-67

A summay of the Japanese Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC) panel's
report on the state of the art of Japanese robot technology.  Lots of
pictures of wierd and wonderful robots -- elephant trunk, caterpillar,
space tentacle, wall builder, Komatsu's walking undersea
rubble-leveler, humanoid two-armed assembly robot, 4-legged stair
climber.  Also tells where to write for videotapes of these machines
in action.  Here's the info (two years old, remember) ...

Tape with narration by William "Red" Whittaker (CMU robot lab, RedZone 
Robotics):  $37.50 from ...

	University Video Communications
	Box 20006
	Stanford, CA USA 94309
	(415)327-0131

Shorter tape of highlights from many Japanese labs ...

	National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
	5285 Port Royal Road
	Springfield, VA USA 22161
	(703)457-4650

Bill Park
-- 
Grandpaw Bill's High Technology Consulting & Live Bait, Inc.
