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Re: Robot???

At 9:46 AM -0400 on 8/11/01, Dave Bonar wrote

Do you have an easy to use term to replace the awkward "radio
controlled device?"

How about we start calling them RC Devices??? or RC machines.

Since I was asked this right after I started looking into BEAM robotics

I think that the BEAM things can qualify as robots. They react to
their environment in very primitive ways. And DON'T have human input
to their actions.
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