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From: ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michael S. Miner)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: REAL applications for mobile robots?
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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 22:52:56 GMT
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Over Yonder (tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu) wrote:

: How about this.  A Brick Laying robot.  Maybe not for houses but for 
: those fences that people build around swimming pools.  Maybe have
: another robot to dig a foundation.  Paint the ground with a spray can.
: Let the digger follow the paint and dig the hole.  Let the Brick 
: Layer Follow the whole and lay the bricks.

  Interesting idea.  Could you expand on it?  Why just fences?  What
fences(we have stone walls here)?  Would it work along the same lines
as the cement machines on the freeway? (3d line following)

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Michael S. Miner                         ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu
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