Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:31:00 -0800 From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-wiredmag.com> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: "the art advances and the artisan recedes" At 5:40 PM -0400 9/4/2, John Klima wrote: >seems to me that the ability to produce a beautiful object on demand is >very much being in control of what you do. > Robot golfers unveiled An engineer in Florida has designed two robots which play golf. One finds the tee and sets up the ball for a drive while the other putts the ball into the hole. The second machine is named RoboWoods after the world's number one player. RoboWoods is the size of a shoebox and uses infrared sensors to locate the ball and the hole - it then knocks the ball in with a shortened putter. Its range isn't good enough for a competitive game and the sport's authorities are expected to rule it illegal but its inventor, Kahlil Khan, says it could be used to test putters. There may be more of a market for his Li'l Golfing Buddy which scoots around on rubber wheels, hunting for the tee with infrared sensors. It then balances a ball on top before backing off. Khan, a University of Florida student, said: "If you could buy a $500 putter, why not buy a $500 robot that putts the ball?" The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> since 1994 <<<< + + + serial ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/b/bbrace + + + eccentric ftp://ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace + + + continuous ftp:// < your site here > + + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + imagery ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace News://alt.binaries.pictures.12hr ://a.b.p.fine-art.misc Reverse Solidus: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/ Mirror: http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html { brad brace } <<<< bbrace-AT-eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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