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标题：Mobile Robots and Unmanned Vehicles. - periodical reviews
作者：Robert Horvitz
期刊名称：Whole Earth: access to tools, ideas, and practices
印刷版ISSN：1097-5268
出版年度：1991
卷号：Spring 1991
出版社：Point Foundation

Mobile Robots and Unmanned Vehicles. - periodical reviews

Robert Horvitz

Mobile Robots and Unmanned Vehicles

Robot Sweepers to Invade Amsterdam

The Ontario, Canada-based Cyberworks, Inc., has shipped the first test batch of 300 robot vacuum cleaners to a large European cleaning company based in Amsterdam. The Hodon Group is buying the systems for a price of $12,000 each (Canada), according to Cyberworks president Vivek Burhanpurkar. What makes his robots special are their high degree of autonomy, allowing them to execute a generalized task without being preprogrammed for specific details of a job. The systems are provided with a visual reasoning navigation system using ultrasonic wave, which allows it to operate in changing or unknown environments.