Wes wrote:
Bob Engelhardt wrote:

Peeve: calling those things "robots". They're remote controlled
vehicles. If I was a real robot, I'd be ****ed by the pretentiousness
of those RC's.

I have maintained, programmed and troubleshot real robots for a couple
decades. The
yellow ones made by Fanuc previously by GMFanuc. While there is fancy
electronics, wonderful mechanical engineering, they can't do much more
than do the same thing time
after time. Our current 710i does have vision, it can orient a part so we
can insert it into a lathe chuck.

What they need at the reactor site is robot technology in the form of
being able to articulate and manipulate end effectors while guided by a
human via a video link.

If it has a human driver, it simply is NOT a robot. It's a servo.

If it were a robot, you'd simply tell it what the task is, and it would
figure out how to get it done without human intervention, except, of course,
for the guy who tells it what the task is.

Hope This Helps!
Rich