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From: zjoc01@hou.amoco.com (Jack Coats)
Subject: Re: Looking for robot ideas
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 07:51:19 CST
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In article 753427306@swanee, arnette@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au (Jeanette Campbell) writes:
>>I'm about to embark on a 1-year research project (equivalent to Electronic
>>Engineering honours), aiming to design a simple robot.  Any ideas?

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  Just a few musings... 

	Try a rock climber, vertical bare face...
  		This could be pratical too, wash windows on large 
		buildings... Or paint houses in hard to get to (without
		big ladder) places...  One of the competitions this year
		did a rope climber...
	Kitchen Helper...
		Give it a potato, it washes, and slices, dices, or otherwise
		prepares it... Give it a tomato it washes it, and slices it...
		Juice preparrer (for grapefruit, oranges, lemmons, and such)
	Rain Gutter cleaner...
		I have pine trees that are always dropping pine needles and
		tend to block my rain gutters...
	Lawn Mower ... (my dream project)
		Electric lawn mower that will know where it is sufficiently
		not to mow over the cat (or other animal large or small), 
		or the flowers (i.e. no mechanical fences, electrical ones
		are OK, but must not be visible).  My thoughts on navigation
		are 'light houses' or 'beacons' with unique identifiers.  If
		the robot could see two or more, it would know exactly where
		it is.  Having it spread fertilizer evenly would be nice.
	Vacume Cleaner ...
		like the lawn mower, only for inside the house.  Would also
		want it to be sensative to the kind of floor, and use the
		correct settings (tile, shag rug, berber carpet, etc...)
		This would even be nice in my wood shop...


>>
>>Jeanette Campbell
>>The University of Western Australia.

Hope this helps...
   keep us notified of what you do....  Jack   jocoats@amoco.com

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