from Phil Runkel on 990505.21:30 pdt or something like that.
To Kennaway or Powers:
Has the bug yet learned to crawl?
[From Richard Kennaway (990505.0935 BST)]
from Phil Runkel on 990505.21:30 pdt or something like that.
To Kennaway or Powers:
Has the bug yet learned to crawl?
Yes. Well, it didn't learn, I told it how, but it stands, walks up and
down stairs and over rough terrain, and navigates to a food source. I gave
a presentation on it at Reading University last week, and I'll be giving
another in a few weeks time at Imperial College in London.
I'll clean up the current version and put in on the web soon (occupied with
marking student projects all this week).
-- Richard Kennaway, jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk, http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/
School of Information Systems, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
from Phil Runkel on 990505.1050 a.m.
Richard Kennaway (990505.0935 BST) reported that THE BUG IS WALKING!
Wonderful! I am imagining six busy legs, all doing what they ought
without tripping over one another. I suppose to some people this seems no
more than what Walt Disney has been doing for decades; but to me, it is
magnificent.
Where is the hardware, the circuits? Onboard or in a truck that runs
alongside? (Joke.) How many lines in the programming?
Richard K: I want to read about the bug, but diagrms often somehow turn
into incomprehensible characters on their way to my scren. I can wait
until you get round to putting the article on paper, and I'll gladly pay
the postage. No hurry; let me know when you get round to it.
Meanwhile, congratulations.