Robots Who Follow The Sun
from the keep-on-moving dept
Had enough of Mars robots that run out of power (assuming they actually do land, of course)? Now, some scientists are testing a new solar powered robot that moves with the sun to make sure it stays powered all the time. I would think such a robot probably has to move pretty fast to keep up. And what happens if it messes up just once? Is that the end for our trusty robot? Anyway, the link is a NY Times link because I’m just trying to piss off those of you who refuse to give in and register with them (or, at the very least, find one of the many many publicly available username/password combos that works at the site).
Comments on “Robots Who Follow The Sun”
sun following robots
Gee, Mike so much internalized anger about the
NYTimes password thing – must be a NY thing, like
cab courtesy. I go the article from JPL, with the link to CMU.
Re: sun following robots
Ha! Good idea on finding the article… (and good point about the internalized anger – it makes a lot of sense, actually). Anyway, I’m a transplanted New Yorker in California so I need to learn to “go with the flow” a little more. I guess any mention of NY (NY Times, NY Yankees) just snaps me back into New Yorker mode… Maybe I’ll get a shrink to look into it. That’s a California thing to do, right? 😉
hmmm.
May I ask why Mike doesn’t post these widely available login/password combos?
Re: hmmm.
Because I don’t want to get in trouble… 🙂
Re: Re: hmmm.
What if you linked to a slashdot thread that mentions one? Like this one… Too bad NYT killed off their ad-free backdoor. sniff sniff…