From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 19:23:36 MDT
No they didn't!
I continually read topics on this list being discussed as if they were
real, only to find out that they are merely speculation. This robot has
not been deployed by John Hopkins. They are hoping to design such a
robot that might be built in the future. The design isn't even
completed yet. They could be years away from actually building such a
system or beta-testing the first hardware mock-ups.
I hate to be a stickler for details, but I keep seeing theoretical
possibilities discussed on this list as if they already existed today.
We do not have this capability right now, because it doesn't work yet.
We hope to get it working in a few years. We need to be careful about
speaking accurately about the current state of technology and avoid
exaggerating its capabilities. The possibilities are endless, but
inaccurate discussions can only hinder our credibility and public
acceptance.
On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 06:06 pm, Leonardo Gonzalez wrote:
> In Remote Library Stacks, an All-Seeing, Scanning Robot
>
> June 27, 2002
> By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE
Despite the subject line, reading the article reveals:
> In libraries of the future, researchers at Johns Hopkins
> University say, that kind of grunt work could be handled by
> robotic systems linked to the Internet.
> As the first step
> toward building such a system, the researchers have
> designed a robot
> In the system's envisaged final version,[....]
> In its final, functional form, the robot will be[....]
> Robots are already being used in a handful of libraries
> around the world, although none of them perform the
> complicated tasks for which the Johns Hopkins robot is
> being designed.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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