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What the student scientists finally did, in fact, is make a robot. "We didn't make the robot for its efficiency, although it's close to what we want," says Paul M. Jury, one of the machine's creators...
...three graduate students conceived of the robot in a computer software engineering course they took two years ago. "We started talking about it in the course as a project using computer software," says Farlow, who was responsible for the computer end of the project. "We thought about making a robot that was programmable through a real computer on the robot. As it turned out, we used a radio link and programmed it through a separate computer...
Building the "Tiger Vac", also known as a "programmable mobile platform," involved the intricate and lengthy construction of separate components, which ultimately were placed on the robot's main structure. The students did most of the building in conjuction with a Physics 123 course they were taking...
...their next step, the builders will add the robot--after some comprehensive modification--to a vacuum cleaner, a practical use not part of the original design. While the machine was not originally designed for housecleaning purposes, it can be programmed through the communication of its two computers to perform a certain movement or series of movements--a vacuum cleaner following a programmed map, for example...
Jennings and Koppel put events into the context of U.S. cultural history by referring to collage boxes filled with such props as Hula-Hoops and the Star Wars robot Artoo-Detoo. Since the program concentrates on the U.S., it tends to highlight American mistakes and triumphs rather than those of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the cold war themes are handled with sophistication and balance. ABC's 40-year journey offers fresh, sometimes offbeat details about many of the terrain's landmarks and a knowing sense of how they shaped the modern world...