Chapter 10Together We Stand: The Robot Convoy

The Lost Scrolls of Robotics: #10

As soon as our respective armies take their places,we shall correct that oversight.

—Megatron, Transformers

So far, we have concentrated on building teams of robots that can work together to perform intermediate-level tasks or solve problems. But what if the task is simple. What if it’s just a simple matter of transportation? Do we always need a team? What if the task is simply to retrieve a container of liquid? We would like the liquid moved from point A to point B. Surely we don’t need a team of communicating robots to accomplish such a simple task! We can build a nice MINDSTORMS-based mobile robot with a gripper to acquire the container from point A and bring it ...

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