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Unread 25-09-2010, 22:28
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Re: Are they really robots?

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Originally Posted by Garret View Post
I think they are robots.

Every time the operate moves the joystick, presses a button, or something else he is sending a signal (which acts the external stimuli) to the robot telling it to execute a piece of preprogrammed code in response.

In even more abstract sense you could think of the driver station as a big sensor array. The driver is creating the external stimuli that in turn makes the robot execute a preprogrammed response.
Then what makes that different from a gaming console? It does preprogrammed response on the screen, responds to external stimuli...
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