Navigation

And the winds and

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And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon

I had often heard

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I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the … Read more

…those experiments be not

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…those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner’s needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for … Read more

He had a tremendous

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He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it … Read more

The answer is navigation,

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The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to go to the kitchen means something – navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry. Colin Angle