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"The best fuzzy rules, the best knowledge, deal with the turning points of the system. If a race-car driver teaches you how to drive, you don't need him to show you how to drive on the straightaway. It's how he handles the curves that matters."
- Bart Kosko
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| Robot Trash Collectors | ||
| Robots that drive and operate garbage trucks. |
| Carl had always known there were garbage trucks, but of course he had never seen one. It was a bulky, shining cylinder over twenty metres long. A robot driver was built into the cab. Thirty other robots stood on foot-steps along the sides.
The supervisor led the way to the rear of the truck and pointed to the gaping mouth of the receiving bin. "Robots pick up the garbage and junk and load it in there," he said. "Then they press one of these here thirteen buttons keying whatever they have dumped into one of the thirteen bins inside the truck. They're just plain lifting robots and not too brainy..." |
| Technovelgy from Robot Justice,
by Harry Harrison. Published by Fantastic Universe in 1959 Additional resources -
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Compare to the high tech trash can from Islands in the Net (1988) by Bruce Sterling and to the garbage device from The Age of The Pussyfoot (1966), by Frederik Pohl.
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