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At random: Habitability is heavily stressed in the construction of modern submarines. Specially designed color schemes, mechanical conveniences, air conditioning, and the best chow in the Navy are supplied to make the vessels more livable. A full time staff is maintained by Electric Boat Division to work out 'human engineering' problems.

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Ric

Posted 2009-08-24 8:53 AM (#29958)

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Subject: Pretty amazing (nsr)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk

Flapper

Posted 2009-08-24 11:48 PM (#29977 - in reply to #29958)

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Subject: RE: Pretty amazing (nsr)

Having had to deal with robotic manufacturing systems in the latter part of the 20th Century (semi-conductor industry) I'm well familiar with advance enabled by Moore's Law.

That said, I'm really impressed by that video! I remember attending a SoCal conference in '99 or 2000 and our luncheon speaker demonstrated a primitive robotic feedback that involved a tilting track (think teeter-totter) driven with servos, with a ball in the rails. The idea was to keep the ball rolling back and forth without it rolling off either end, based on picking up ball movement with photo sensors - and it wasn't successful more than 50% of the time.

Kewl stuff!

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