RadioBanter - View Single Post - Is ours the most technical hobby in the world?

September 9th 04, 02:24 PM

On 09 Sep 2004 11:42:56 GMT, (Troglodite) wrote:

About the closest group to beating us in
public visibility is probably those guys and gals with the battling robots
with buzz saws on PBS robot wars, right? ;-) ;-)

But technically, those machines are NOT robots. If they were true robots, they
would devise their own strategy. They are simply radio controlled devices.

Yes, as yet. But given time, no doubt there'll be a category for
autonymous fighting robots. A few of us have attempted it, but only
scratched the surface of the possibilities.

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