Robotics

Although industrial robots have been expensive, robot hardware can be cheap: Radio Shack has sold a working robot arm and hand for $15. The limiting factor in application of robotics is not the cost of the robot hardware itself.

What is needed is perception and intelligence to tell the robot what to do; ``blind'' robots are limited to very well-structured tasks (like spray painting car bodies).

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