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Index
storage capacity, 87–88
time-of-flight ranging, 316
storage media, 55
time sharing, 258
strain gauge, 345–346
subject/verb/object, 305
time shifting, 316–317
timer IC, 156
submarine robot, 112, 302–304
surge suppressor, 236, 254
top-down programming, 342
surgical assistance robot, 304
topological navigation, 317
topological path planning, 122, 317
Sussman, Gerry, 133
swarm, 153 time-of-flight distance measurement, 316
torque, 302
synchro, 304–305 total internal reflection, 106
syntax, 295, 305 track drive, 9, 139
track-drive locomotion, 317–319, 318,
tactile sensation, 48 343
tactile sensing, 84, 108, 128, 211, 307 transducer, 319
tangential potential field, 231–232 transformer, 233–234
task environment, 307–308 transient, 236
task-level programming, 26, 308, 308 transient suppressor, 236, 254
teach box, 56, 283, 308–309, 348 transistor battery, 90
technocentrism, 309–310 transistor-transistor logic, 157–158
technophobe, 181 tri-star wheel locomotion, 318, 319,
telechir, 310–313, 333 321–322, 321, 343
telemetry, 310 triangulation, 320–321, 320
teleoperation, 56, 205, 271, 275, 283, tricorner reflector, 320
304, 310–311 trinary logic, 178
telepresence, 48, 109, 111, 205, 263, triple-axis inversion, 19
271–272, 275, 303, 311–313, 311, truth table, 322–323
333, 335–336 Turing, Alan, 58, 323
temperature sensing, 313–314, 315 Turing test, 323
terabyte, 189 two-dimensional range plotting, 256
tethered robot, 314 two-phase stepper motor, 302–303
texture sensing, 314–315, 314 two-pincher gripper, 323–324, 324
theorem-proving machine, 241
thermistor, 315 ultrasonic motion detector, 239
thermocouple, 315–316 ultrasound, 290–291, 292, 304
Theta Tau, 171 ultraviolet, 5
third formant, 294 uncanny valley phenomenon, 337
third-generation robot, 268–269 uncanny valley theory, 325–326, 326
three-dimensional range plotting, uniform potential field, 231
256–257 uniformly distributed control, 78
threshold-detection profile, 185 uninterruptible power supply, 236
tic-tac-toe, 45 uplink, 275, 326–327
time-division multiplex, 198 user friendliness, 140
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