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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Future Robots in Industry (cont)
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 18:28:15 GMT
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In article <2cgj3cINN1cm@ymir.cs.umass.edu> buluswar@cs.umass.edu (Shashi Buluswar) writes:
>I think one of the problems that is holding back the entire
>field of robotics from an explosion into many areas of 
>application is Vision.  

      Actually, there's been enormous progress in vision processing in
the last few years.  It's not that the algorithms are that much smarter,
but that throwing more compute power at dumb algorithms is worthwhile.

					John Nagle


