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contents Introduction: The Rookie Revolution xi PART one: the atacama 1. Wild Ride to Base Camp 3 2. Big Red 7 3. Groundhog 24 4. Bummed and Elated 35 5. A Lack of Vision 48PART TWO: autonomy 6. Robocup 61 7. The Color of Thinking 78 8. Asimo and Friends 95 9. Frustration 100 10. The Challenge 120 11. Fresh Blood 131PART three: the ops 12. The Grasshopper and the Ant 145 13. Fallback Positions 162 14. The Desert Makes Us Wacky 176 15. Peeing on a Rock 193 16. Downtime 206 17. Two Versions of Reality 219 PART four: making history 18. Nathalie 227 19. Pirate's Cove 237 20. Hardware vs. Software 255 21. In the Field 265 22. The Barest Beginning 270 Acknowledgments 281 Notes 283
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Autonomous robots.
Artificial intelligence.