Researchers trying to make control systems more reliable, autonomous
By Greg Kline
Sunday October 29, 2006
Robert K. O'Daniell
Professor Mark Spong examines the legs for a walking robot to study joint movement in the Coordinated Science Lab on the University of Illinois campus.
Mark Spong remembers when robots, at least in a manufacturing sense, were big, dangerous machines surrounded by safety cages and pressure mats on the floor, which shut them down when people got too close.
"They were more glorified machine tools than intelligent robots," the University of Illinois electrical and computer engineering professor said recently.
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