From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!megatest!sun!gnu@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Remote mining using AI to alleviate speed-of-light problems
Article-I.D.: sun.107
Posted: Thu Sep  2 23:16:48 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 06:23:51 1982

I seem to recall an article by Larry Niven and/or Jerry Pournelle
a year or so ago about remote mining on the moon, using artificial
intelligence techniques on the remote end to avoid the robot's breaking
things (or itself) during the round-trip delay.  It wouldn't have to be
able to run itself -- just stop itself.  Maybe JEP or someone can provide
the reference?  (It could have been the space advisory board report.)