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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Chip robots...why havn't we seen them yet?
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 11:34:20 GMT
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In article <32k06g$3kg@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
Todd Freeman <freeman@andrews.edu> wrote:
>I have a question here that I am confused about. I have seen the
>advances in chip technology and I know that you can have a chip with a
>pretty good CPU some memory and driver circuits REALLY small. Why
>doesn't someone make one that has instead of pins it has a button batery
>holder on the back and the pins are really nitinol wire changed to bend
>with electricity. WALA a walking robot the size of a good sized cock
>roach. If you wanted you could even build a CCD chip into it as well and
>bingo You got a robot with advanced vision the size of a credit card or
>smaller.
>Just my 1.85 Yen.
>Todd
>freeman@andrews.edu
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Then battery too small to run the nitinol wires! Some things are easier the
bigger you build them, floating cities and airliners, to name a few! So are
most robots, partly because of the size of components. Unfortunately
limited by cost; i.e., yours. Good idea for the sensors built onto it,
though, and really we have that now except for the actuator power needs.
You can stand all sorts of stuff on top a PIC.
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

