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Re: Fully autonomous robots?

I think that partial autonomous, or perhaps better phrased, driver augmentation is the perfect, and indeed key component of this year's game. I think that especially with shooting, the driver needs to be able to just hit a "shoot" button, and have the robot auto-fire if in range.

Furthermore, I think that the ideal system is like a nice glass aircraft . . . the pilot still flys, but does not have to worry about individual settings like mixture or prop, instead having the computer manage those for a requested "power."
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