Word: robotically
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...know when to reorder and replenish the shelves. It took Ashton a year to identify RFID as a technology that would solve his problem and to hook up with two M.I.T. professors who could help him. The profs, Sanjay Sarma and David Brock, had their own obsession: getting a robot to recognize anything, whether a sheep or a car, that crossed its path. That task proved daunting until Sarma had a revelation: "Why don't you just ask the damn thing what it is?" Thus was born the idea for giving each item a 96-bit code...
...inside the samples and elsewhere promises to be considerable. In addition to the four cameras perched at the top of the mast, two in front will help the vehicles go where they need to, and two in back will help them steer. Most impressive, a microscopic imager on the robot arm will do close-up work, squinting deep into rocks to study their texture. "This thing's got eyeballs all over the place," says Squyres...
...somewhat smaller scale, but with no less attention to detail (dig those beveled corners!), "Project: Telstar" (AdHouse Books; 184 pp.; $16.95) features robot and space stories by a group of cartoonists not normally associated with science fiction. Gregory Benton creates a credible New York during the last days of Earth. Gigantic floods aren't enough to make some people move: they still buy toilet paper and pull giant worms off each other. Other contributors (there are over 25) only tangentially refer to space. Mark Burriur's "Piano Music" tells of a lonely piano teacher and the painting of outer space...