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Comments on ReadyBot Robot Picks Up Like Heinlein 'Hired Girl'
This robot has a key ability that I noted was lacking in commercial vacuuming robots. (Read
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| "I'm also intrigued by the idea that the ReadyBot can apparently deploy or otherwise order around other robots. Sounds like a robotic overseer to me; or maybe a lead swarmbot." (Bill Christensen 6/24/2008 7:07:37 AM) |
| "Found it - here's an early reference to the idea that robots can order other robots around. See the entry for multiple robot team from Isaac Asimov's 1944 story Catch That Rabbit." (Bill Christensen 6/24/2008 3:48:53 PM) |
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