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From: vsandber@cln.etc.bc.ca (Vern Sandberg)
Subject: Re: Who coined telerobotics?
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Can the experts help out a teacher with some of this terminology? I have 
always thought "teleoperators" were the remote manipulators built during 
the '50s and '60s. A "robot" was defined as a "multifunctional, 
reprogrammable ....(can't recite the remainder)" by the American Robotics 
Institute. I always thought this was the distinction from an 
Automated machine which can only perform one task. "Telerobotics" sounds 
contradictory unless perhaps we are discussing highly complex submersible 
rovers or planetary/volcano vehicles. Here there would seem to be some 
fusion between the remote control and autonomous sensing and feedback of 
the robot.

Or am I totally confused?
