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Subject: Telepresence
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Date: Fri, 17-Jun-83 13:16:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 17 13:16:17 1983
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From:  Slava Prazdny 

The concept of a telepresence could greatly benefit by considering the
"Intelligent manipulators".  These things would typically containa
bare minimum of "AI" to be able to perform requests like:

  "pick up that thing (the operator points to a screen
  location) and put it over here (again pointer to a screen
  location)"; or

  "go over there (pointer to a screen location) using this
  route (operator points to a set of points on the screen)".

Perhaps, sometime in the future (100 years?), these commands could be 
generated by the machine itself.

I have some scriblings on these matters, so if you are interested.....
-Slava.