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INTRODUCTION
FIGURE I-2. An industrial robot. (Courtesy of Cincinnati Milacron.) xiii
manipulator. This middle family is that of the show robot or
showbot. Questor, the robot outlined in this book, is a mem-
ber of the showbot family. Figures I-5 through I-8 picture
examples of commercial show robots.
A showbot in most cases has no computer brain. Instead it
is controlled via a remote control system operated by a person
somewhere out of sight. You might have seen or heard of a
