Re: (4327) Robots at TL7

James says:

>Argh. Life sucks (sometimes). While I have spent most of my time
>programming advanced software systems, I have a little experience with
>TL7 robot programming from college, where I took a robot programming
>class. We programmed a small (24", one-armed) robot and got a good
>overview of mostly modern robot systems and technology. Suffice to say
>robot programming is still in the stone age, moreso even than
>conventional programming.
>
>Off the top of my head, here's some of the problems with TL7 robots:
>
<many problems deleted>
>
Holy smokes!  Kind of makes me glad I didn't take any robot courses  8+)
I guess that 3-1/2 billion years makes quite a difference, eh?

>James
>

BTW, has anyone read James P. Hogan's _Code_of_the_Lifemaker_ ?  All about
human's finding and interacting with a robot civilization on Titan.  Of course
those robots were created by an alien protoplasm race, but due to accidents and
evolution, the robots developed sentience and a civilization on a fuedal level.
I enjoyed it a lot.

If you aren't interested in the interaction part, read the prolog at least,
which explains how the civilization developed from a self-directed (but not
sentient) mobile factory/starship.  I found it verry interesting.

P.
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