01-14-2017, 11:39 AM
I see that that was NOT your last post in this thread, welcome back!
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?
Thus spake the prophet?
That is a very charitable description of the Mars rover program.
Including the first death! Am very curious how that industry actually evolves.
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.