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From: nivek@cmu.edu (Kevin Dowling)
Subject: The Ultimate Robot
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 20:33:35 GMT
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I picked up a nice CD-ROM today called Isaac Asimov's The Ultimate
Robot. It is an excellent intro and retrospective on robotics. It
includes movie clips from your favorite cinema robots, robotic
terminology defined and illustrated (linkages, kinmatics, arm types
etc), vignettes of many historically important robots including
Moshers work from the 60's, many teleoperated devices, several mobile
machines including the ASV and many others. There is also a fun part
where you get to select parts, build a robot and animate it. (Design
by Ralph MacQuarrie who was production designer on Star Wars)

There are video interviews with Asimov and all of his robot stories
and essays as well
Published by Microsoft.
$35 at CMU's Computer Store, price may vary elsewhere.

				nivek

aka:    Kevin Dowling         Project Scientist
tel: 	412.268.8830          Carnegie Mellon University
fax:	412.682.1793          The Robotics Institute
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