Robots Rolling Toward Farm Revolution
New Scientist (06/01/09) Simonite, Tom
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17224-robots-rolling-towards-farm-revolution.html
(Noticed in ACM Tech News this afternoon)
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Montgomery"
To: "The Friday Morning Applied C
On the topic of robots more generally, I come more from the theory of
practicability, particularly given the new light (albeit not unexpected) of
severely diminished earthly resources.
I've reviewed quite a few ventures attempting to emerge from the lab in
robotics, including full and partial.
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> John, and others...
>
> Open, indeed! Thanks for your concise statement of the
> problem.
> My deep suspicion is that the robots are smoke and mirrors.
> That if one needs spatial arrangements to make the model
> go ... as we began to s
