01-16-2017, 01:23 PM
(01-14-2017, 11:39 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: I see that that was NOT your last post in this thread, welcome back!
Quote:The Ultimate was a great prototype product, but it was still just that. True numerical control didn't exist, because the control circuitry to utilize and implement it needed processing and control technology that didn't exist at the time. By the time PUMA came to be, at least working level solutions to those problems were available. PUMA was still a programmable tool, but a much more powerful one.
You mean the Unimate, which seemed to have gone past the prototype phase. Wasn't that phase supposed to have been in the '80s, according to you?
Quote:FWIW, true robots will have the ability to adapt to the needs of the job, and do it on the fly.
Thus spake the prophet?
Quote:NASA has already demonstrated some early versions with the explorers on Mars.
That is a very charitable description of the Mars rover program.
Quote:Self driving cars have similar challenges.
Including the first death! Am very curious how that industry actually evolves.
Most of this falls under you-said-I-said, so just one response.
Cutting to the chase, autonomy is the point where a robot emerges from a programmable device. We'll be there before full AI is achieved, and smart vehicles seem to be the technology of choice. I agree that death and injury are not going to disappear (they didn't when we started to drive ourselves and fly in airplanes either). The real questions, beyond the ones involving trust in the technology, are liability. Once that is settled, and the technology is "good enough", what ever that means, things will proceed quickly.
I may see it, but you definitely should. Stay healthy.
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