Sawtooth awakens

…and Max said he'd consider an experiment and the robot at quality control was concerned about aging neural nets.

This idea is modeled after the Works Progress Administration. It would allow robots to be useful away from humans, develop the infrastructure needed for an industrial society, and speed up the terraforming process.

You've had a productive morning.

I had a busy morning. It's only productive if something actually gets done.

Yuki-taro – a snowplough robot, navigates using GPS and two video cameras embedded in its eyes. It collects and presses snow into bricks and leaves them behind it. Developed by a team of researchers from five Niigata-based organisations to clear snow that presents difficulties for residents, especially the elderly, for whom clearing paths and driveways is  – hard labour. 2007

“The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Works Progress Administration) was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of job-seekers (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.”