Although I'm impressed, in some ways, by clever remote controlled devices, I don't see them as (genuine) robots.
There certainly is a degree of overlap.
At one extreme is a plain remote controlled car/boat/plane/etc where there is no on-board "intelligence" at all.
At the other extreme is the robots that compete in cross-country races, where they need to have very sophisticated "intelligence" to negotiate entirely un(pre-)known terrain.
I think the bicycle rider falls very short of the latter, as it seems to be just a remote controlled device, directed mainly by the operator, but with (maybe) a little on-board software for primary stability.
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Kamran Nazeer
22 Jan 2012, 1:44 am
