Comment Re:BEAM is the Cold Fusion of Robotics (Score 1) 81
Your post brings the Monty Python sketch about the guy who buys an argument...
You can sit on your high horse and give uneducated opinions for the rest of your life or you can come down here and actually DO something and find out for yourself.
"Until I can see a BEAM robot that does more than scamper around... until I see a BEAM robot that can play soccer... until I see a BEAM robot that cooperate with another BEAM robot... until I see a BEAM robot walk into a volcano, drive on mars, navigate a hospital, retrieve books in a library... I don't want to hear about BEAM"
The biggest hinderance to science is scientists.
"I have a graduate degree from doing robotics research at a very well known university"
After all, as far as the scientific community knew, the earth was flat.
"They are not solving any problems that real robotics professionals and researchers are trying to solve"
It took a person who was able to look at the world without the blinders of "fact" to get the job done. Check your history...REAL advances are made by REAL scientists, not naysayers!
Do the work first and then if you can't do it, you can email some of the BEAMers (most under 18!) and they can tell you how to make it work.
Richard Caudle
BEAMer since 1998
You can sit on your high horse and give uneducated opinions for the rest of your life or you can come down here and actually DO something and find out for yourself.
"Until I can see a BEAM robot that does more than scamper around... until I see a BEAM robot that can play soccer... until I see a BEAM robot that cooperate with another BEAM robot... until I see a BEAM robot walk into a volcano, drive on mars, navigate a hospital, retrieve books in a library... I don't want to hear about BEAM"
The biggest hinderance to science is scientists.
"I have a graduate degree from doing robotics research at a very well known university"
After all, as far as the scientific community knew, the earth was flat.
"They are not solving any problems that real robotics professionals and researchers are trying to solve"
It took a person who was able to look at the world without the blinders of "fact" to get the job done. Check your history...REAL advances are made by REAL scientists, not naysayers!
Do the work first and then if you can't do it, you can email some of the BEAMers (most under 18!) and they can tell you how to make it work.
Richard Caudle
BEAMer since 1998
