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From: mark@CS.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim)
Subject: Re: Star Trek IV whales ....
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Organization: Robotics Department, Stanford University, Ca. USA
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 22:18:18 GMT
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In article <1993Sep1.171955@cs.bham.ac.uk>, pxf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Pranath Fernando) writes:
|> In article <1993Aug31.211634.18053@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, mark@CS.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim) writes:
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|> |> 
|> |> I'm not sure about "free willy", but in "Star Trek IV" the whales that were 
|> |> shown were robot whales, about 3 or 4 feet in length I think.  One of the guys 
|> |> involved in the design gave a lecture in a class here at stanford (ME218 
|> |> smart product design lab).
|> |> 
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|> 
|> Anyone know what happened to these Robot whales ?

As best as I can remember, the guy said that the robots were made of the silicon
rubber type stuff they make masks out of and that they deteriorate very quickly.
So after a few months or so it would be unuseable. 

So, I think that the robots are now in robotwhale heaven.

One more thing for the SF robots arts thread.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,	Another new live-action kids show where
				a group of teenagers use some power belt buckle
				to become "power rangers" kids in suits with laser
				guns and swords and martial arts, then can call up their
				giant dinosaur robot things that they ride in,
				the robot dinosaurs can combine together to
				form some kind of tank and also transform into
				a giant humanoid robot, all the while to save the earth.  

kind of a TeenageMutantNinja-ultraman-transforming-voltron-gobots show with 
"THE POWER OF THE DINOSAUR".  :-?

mark
mark@killdeer.stanford.edu
