***Found a piece of paper with a definition of CHRYSOCOLLA. Very cool demonstration!

Hmmm ... We definitely discovered a human eye. Strange artifact to find in the Nevada Desert, eh?

Very cool. The air-burst button seemed unavailable. ***X810, Y405 - corner of document, words visible: "...was used" "...knife blades" "...caused" ***X1009, Y296 Corner of book, text out of focus at Z170 Well done !

Neat, though a bit hard to wait while you're supposed to be working. . . I'll be back!

trick!

Unclear about the purpose of the "Update" button. When I was operating the robot, no "Update" button was present (and none was needed). Great idea!! There was no queue on Sunday morning. I expect this will be a busy site. - Dave Elliott

An interesting experience !

Interesting usage of the WWW. Can you point me to a site where I can do book shopping in a similar way? :) *** Discovered a paper with the definition of "Mosaic"

COOL, Great stuff

Very interesting ! Ever so slow from from here though. Congratulations

This was fun !

*** I cleared the gravel from a wristwatch (analog, of course) *** I noticed a small square object which appeared to be in the watch *** at the 12 o'clock position. I think it is paper. *** x564, y511 Wierd watch, cool Web site. - Ryan Grant

Great application. Keep up the great work.

cool

Ok, ok you had me fooled. For a little while I believed the scenario. Good fun anyway *** found paper about sandstone use to form molds

Good fun- bit difficult to get very far with 14.4K dialup!

Happy-Happy, Joy-Joy!

Great job, guys, bleeding edge.

Hmm.. I just had to quit then as the images weren't app- earing. I just saw the NCSA logo. I tried it a few times with the same result. The images were loaded, just not displayed. Maybe a bug in my Mosaic.. Also I thought of a new feature.. The ability to view USAGE GRAPHS.. Who uses it most, what sites use it most, how long it's in use for, what times, etc.. Would be interesting to look at.

I tried again last night but it was still real slow. I tried just then and it wasn't.. My opinion now that I have used it properly: AMAZING! It's great! A couple of suggestions on future improvements: Add a "wide angle" camera that shows the whole quadrant AND the robot, to put things in perspec- tive, and also the ability to enter coordinates. That way if you see in the log (XXX) at (xxx, xxx) you can actually go there. Maybe a "form" input box. Great stuff!

Very exciting!

Extremely imaginative job, and very well done. The little world to explore is most amusing. Bravo!

***There appears to be something adjacent to the champaigne cork where I left off. This is quite a nifty experiment. 'Tis a pity I only have a SLIP connection and get so few moves per period.

VERY COOL! This is certainly the most impressive use of WWW that I have seen to date. Thanks to the Scout Report at InterNIC for pointing me to you. Peter

*** At x=715 y=429 is a document with the following: AGATE: *** chips used as points for spears and arrows.

***Uncovered one military issue wrist watch. This is an interesting implementation of teleoperation. Thanks for your efforts to put this on the www.

An excellent demonstration. Congratulations.

Unable to recover object described above. Where did it go?

*** Newly uncovered object, near 370x424. Circular portion at NW (ring? cup?) containing much gravel. Smooth handle-like portion extends to SE, terminating near 381x405. Not yet identified; lost after an excavation air-puff intended to clear gravel from circular portion.

Hmm. I had a hard time finding a region that *didn't* contain already-excavated objects. Is this dig already complete?

Pretty neat. All I saw was part of a face and at another location I saw a bright shiny metallic object. Definitely slow at 14.4KBPS. Come vist Arkansas at Fayetteville and the College of Engineering at Bell Engineering Center.

*** absolutely "kuehl" ... i wouldnt believe if somebody tells me: "hey!! i was sitting on my terminal in Linz, AUstria, and i drove with a robot in the us..."

Well, my survey is not yet complete, but I hope there's a running watch with a sweep second hand in there somewhere. (many thanks for one of the coolest things since SurfNet).

***This isn't sand, this is Vermiculite, or something like it. You've weighted all the rest of the items, especially the light ones, with real rocks. The air blast must be very soft. This is a very cute trick. Congratulations. Mike O'Brien

Wait a second! Shouldn't I be wearing a dosimeter while operating in a contaminated area? This was good fun. But I think it's slow enough as it is, we don't really have to move it to Mars.

It was a neat experience, but I didn't actually do any "excavating", because of the slowness of the system. I had to wait alomst a minute at one point for an update, and most "moves" took about 30 seconds to send. This was not because of a slow link, the server seems to be slow to respond. So I actually got very little time using the robot. What I did see was very impressive and I will definately use it again in the near future!

*** Air blast very usefull for exposing paper with words.

Hmm, not quite sure just what this is...I uncovered part of what looks like a keyring attached to an elastic cord fastened with a metal crimp. Ran out of time before I could see the whole thing. This is really great. Can we get one of these things set up on the moon?

It was a wonderful experience being at the driver's seat of the robot. ***Was that a real bug I saw on top of the sheet of paper at my co-ordinates, or not. Weirded me out to see something that might be live in the camera lense.

Like everyone else, I wish I had more time! This is very fascinating and an impressive demonstration. ***found and partly excavated a note about something beginning with the text "Chry". It was partly overlaid by what looked like the top edge of a glassine envelope. I was unable to uncover any more of these objects, which may or may not have been related to one another.

Coolness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /Hans Akerman

A wider viewing angle would help by making it easier to identify what you are looking at and in what context.

The time was too short. I only got about 2 minutes on my first 'turn'. It's a great idea. Definitely beats the FishCam.

Cool! Is there something SPECIAL we should be hunting for? Mario

This too cool.

Uh huh. A *real* excavation site. *** I found a scrap of paper that had on it the dictionary definition of "mo-sa-ic". *** I'm sure this is an area that was contaminated during the nuclear tests of the cold war. Right.

*** 12 inch "Westcoat" ruler. 3" mark exposed near 493/316, *** through to 6" mark exposed near 568/314.

Love it! *** Found some plastic (al) foil? Mario

we want to know how deep the sand is and it looks like you should rake the sand pit soon all the good stuff was uncovered already thanks

*** Can I have those DIAMOND matches! (all 32 of them) ? *** It would be nice to be able not just find the pieces, but to take them :-) ***Thanks again

Great experience! *** By the way, I found papers describing sand and granite: Is t\ *** is this a new way to teach geology? Also how about a *** box full of CHAMPain bottles? This kind of WWW esperience is exactly what we want to aim for at our Real-Tiem Imaging lab (University of Minnesota) so we'd like to learn as much as possible about your project. Mario Errico Real-Time Imaging Center for interfacial Engineering University of Minnesota

Wow! It was real - I felt like I was down there, in the robot control room. Thanks for your time and energy!

Thanks for the opportunity to operate your robot! Hope you get an enthusiastic response. Cheers, - Mike Lipsett

This is a great use of the Web. I wish the image transfers were faster. When you get to the edge of the area you can explore a black image appears, but no explanation of this is given.

outstanding demonstration; waiting to control the unit on Mars now

*** What's the object at (356, 429)? Great idea.

Pretty Fantastic! Great work folks *** found what looked like a SMithsonian Mag banner

*** An octopus next to a note that says Agaete was used for points for spears and arrows. There is also some kind of bowl

Thanks for the chance.

I found what appears to be a birth control device for a creature with VERY STRANGE ANATOMY. Extrapolated to what the whole creature must have looked like, according to my very scientific calculations, revealed a species of beings that may threaten all of menkind.

*** Turquoise was used as the principal rock in jewelery. *** Pyrite, or fools gold, was used as inlays in jewelery. *** Obsedian was used for knife blades because of the ... edge. [U2?]

very entertaining system. response time pretty reasonable. easy to use. all that good stuff.

*** I found what appeared to be a document discussing bananas and jackets, but then I blew it away.

My freinds standing next to me have been being very skeptical about all of this, they think it's a very elaborate simulation, and there is actually no real robot at all!

Personally, i think that's a load of old b****cks, if you'll pardon my language :-)

Mike

Thanks for the opportunity at operating the robot. This is a really exciting application of Mosaic, and I'll pass it on to others around the lab. regards, mb

Great linkup!!!! A map of the entire pit shown at the start of the opertor time would be useful. Great idea!

What is THAT ?!?! *** a strange metal artifact, unidentified

Very interesting and thought provoking application of integrating robotics and web technology.

***note : "GRANITE mortars and pestles were used for grinding corn into meal." ***champagne bottle stopper ***wine (?) bottle stopper ***note : "SALT was higly prized for food storage and tanning animal skins." (I know I'm not the first to find this :-))

***I discovered a large squid-like object and near it was a note which said 'AGATE: chips used as points of spears. ** Also found a wrapper that said 'SWEET BA_IL' - the middle letter was obscured.

*** I found a note with the text: SALT was higly *** prized for food *** storage and tan- *** ning animal skins. COOL GAME!!! I love this...

***Boots???

I love this kind of operation, and I found it a serious way of using Internet. Mark: A+ ADD ME AGAIN!!!!!!

Great fun so far, even over the atlantic!

COOL

Pretty neat. The surface I examined seemed pretty bare of those styrofoam peanuts, though. *** Found a rubber dinosaur(?), film canister, and a *** piece of paper with the definition of 'Mosaic' on it.

*** I found a strip (maybe a bookmark) that says *** "A free gift from smithsonian". Did I win something? *** (yeah right!)

This project is nifty. Three cheers, eh?

I like it! Found a scrap of paper with this message: "SERPENTINE was carved into tiny fetishes to help herdsmen protect their flock". ??? I can see this having a *bad* effect on productivity...

Neat. Didn't find much though. Quicker update and this would become real interesting.

Neat, but real buggy. At one time I was listed as the operator but could only interact as an observer. Also I try many times to get this box to accept text. One out of seven is not very good odds. It is a clever interface though. It would be better if I was not connected at 14.4k. You need the ability to leave an indication of where the operator has been - you know, like a trail of bread crumbs. I was glad to see that there is no indication of a cat using the sand box. Bye

*** STILL ON THE LEARNING CURVE

As nice as at the very first time.

This was a very nice experiment. I certainly had a great time.

*** I found that one of the conrol cables (?) overlapped the workspace.

Interesting.

Alas - No luck fishin fer artifacts. But then again, I wouldn't know an artifact from an object in the ground.

And again, it seems like the cyber-souls have a well developed civilization that we are uncovering here.

Wonderful - The ancient cyber-worshippers had enough metalurgical smarts to be able to create what looks like a snap ring for a cyber-dog.

***Promotional basil seeds from Smithsonian ***"Survivalist's Long-Life Magnesium Battery" ad ***Lanyard with medallion (or bent key?)

Interesting. A wider field of view and more light might make things a little easier for the operators.

Gee, that's interesting.

My first experience with tele-operating this; very creative to figure out that this is do-able over the Web! I've had quite a lot of experience with controlling and programming early (c. 1970) Unimates (early industrial robots, programmed by teleoperation rather than by writing code) and remarkably the experience over the Web is not much more difficult than the early hand-held controllers... though to be fair, there are fewer DoF's than here.

Much fun! Liked it. Almost as fun as NFL Pool via WWW. Mark Gaither

that was great! i will be bringing my robotics class for a test drive tommorow. most people i tell that i have done this say "no way"! could you guys get together with dante? imagine if you had this interface and a machine like dante on the moon or mars. then a regular person could "walk" on the moon and explore where i wanted to go.

Hate to sound like a broken record but this is easily the GREATEST UTILIZATION OF WWW I HAVE SEEN. Kudos to the creative minds behind this one. ps: If you're into these kinds of puzzles (i.e. stuff in a sandbox) get "The Egyption Jukebox" (a book by Nick Bantock).

Great tool, I'm eager to read about the results of this project ...

Wow! Incredible. The most inovative use of the web yet.

Seriously cool. Most innovative use of internet I have seen yet. Congratulations!

*** watch, Sweet BASIL seeds. Learning to drive is an experience, by using the image, orientation is not sacrificed for speed. Suggestion: If your time is running out, and no one is in the queue (I know rare but it just happened to me) you should consider extending the current operators time. Sure looks like a lot more fun than when I worked there :-) --Chuck

*** SALT - was highly prized for food storage and the tanning of animal skins. Not to mention using it on fried potatoes! WAY cool folks. So post the kinematics, extra tools? Wouldn't it be neat if you could switch to a 'spade' tool or a screwdriver? *** x479,y373 very strange metallic object, possibly a wind chime? The trick I think is to watch other people in the observation window and then remember where they were if they saw anything of interest. Definitely, definitely a view on things to come. --Chuck

This is really showing the power of Internet! What next?

This is great! Are you going to be publishing anything? I would like to see what your HTML and CGI files look like... Thanks for the show!

What will they think of next? (keep thinking!)

*** Finished digging up the match box. -- Tim

This is THE BUSINESS!! I can't believe I'm sitting here in Ireland operating a robot in the States!! I am ain't I??

**** The banner said: A Free gift from the smithsonian *** There appears to be a handwritten note near the above that says something like "liachem" ?

*** Uncovered a banner that says "A Free Gift From ..." Color would help, there are some bands or something that I can;t make out

Very fun and interesting. I liked it! I sure would like to see more pages like this one.

I tried to "reload images" and suddenly the system refused to accept me as the current operator. Otherwise, this is really cool. When can I pat your pet over the net? Ciao, Daniel

Pretty neat **** Saw what looked like the banner for the magazine "Wired"

Wonderful, Even the timepiece is set to the correct PST time

Had a grand time. Mac WWW users should only attempt to use with Mosaic v2.0.0.

Interesting! Can't wait to try internet brain surgery :-) ***Nice sweet Basil seed package, or is that an ad page from Smithsonian Mag. on the far left?

Hey, I found a sextant next to the watch!

I now agree that the up/down should be a separate toggle which takes place before any motion. Was that an "alpha"?

This was interesting. However it was a bit clumsy to operate the robot over such a slow network link(mine).

This is one of the most exiting developments for the WWW I have ever seen. Congrats on a job well done!

This was really fun!

Neat! ***Uncovered part of ruler?

Quite interesting - but it takes a lot of time to update the information on the screen. I may have been able to perform between 10 to 15 "actions" in the alotted time. I did find the written note, though!

Very interest but I need a modem faster than 14400 modem to perform more than five operations. Also found no waiting at this time 12:45 to 1:00 am.

The view was very blurry. You should try the interface in X windows to get more real time response, though I understand the attraction of Mosaic because it goes accross platforms. So there's a pop machine on the net, so there's a robot on the net. So bill clinton is on the net. What use is it? Have to admit it must have been a lot of fun, however.

Wow, this is really cool. Congtatulatinos to everyone involved in making this happen.

***At 502 517 I found a typewritten piece of paper reading "SANDSTONE was used to form molds for silver casting." ***Next to it was an object I couldn't identify for sure. of a casting of a crab perhaps?

Hey it's me again, I was able to successfully find the miniature lamp... FROM MY HOUSE!! that's correct for all you SLIP or PPP users out there the Mercury project will work over a 28.8Kbps serial line with resonable delays. I was allowed about a dozen or so moves before I ran out of time.

Lots of fun and using the technology to show us what _can_ be done. Is it really a robot or is it a set of images only (i.e. a virtual sandpit) ?

I couldn't identify the object (looked like an electric razor or something like that), but this is totally cool!

Well, despite this appl. having much coolness, i have to return to my CS work and/or go and find some coffee to stay awake with! :-) Bye!, Mike

I am just taking a break from some Comp. Sci. studying and this has made my night :-) ps. it is 5:45 am here so take anything i say above as the ravings of a deranged sleep deprived individual :-)

Aha, use the image for finer movements. Are the objects firmly attached or will the blast dislodge them ? X 265 Y 301 *** Survivalist Special Long Life Magnesium Battery

Thanks for letting me play with the toys in the sand pit !! I seem to be a bit clumsy with small movements of the arm so couldn't read the RHS. *** At X 278 Y 314 Can of Survivalist S??? Long Life Magnesium Ba???

*** OBSIDIAN was used for knife blades because of the rock's sharp edge

*** SALT was highly prized for food storage and tanning animal skins

--

Sven

Are the pictures from the robot supposed to be in color? I was only getting fuzzy black and white. This thing is totally cool!! The whole concept of controlling the robot in real time over the net is amazing. Your job of programming is also neat. It is a good feature to be able to click on the picture itself for fine tuning. I am currently working on a robotics project at Iowa State University. We are working on learning how to use a VME system donated last year. Using this system should make the project much more exciting. Thanks for letting me try this out.

What the !$#@#$ is this:

Sorry, Sven, the picture was slowing down the log when your host was slow. Here's a link to it. - System Manager

(found at

1008/322

Whats that supposed to mean: ***"AGATE chips were used as points for spears and arrows"? The octopus looks kinda neat, tho ... and whats with tose eyes I keep finding on 601/440? --

Sven Geier

Great site, unfortunatley I am only connected at 14.4 but I will give it at try over a t1 at work. Watching TV with with a DUO on my lap adds new meaning to the word Tele-Commuting. Peter H. Jensen

*** I've found a piece of paper at X=473, Y=458 (Z=170, for best view) with a text: "GRANITE mortars and pestles were used for grinding corn into meal". Slightly to the left, there is a cork with a piece of metal wire (champagne ?); moving upwards I saw a piece of cloth (?) with letters MUMM on it, attached to a metal, sparkling thing.

I was interrupted twice with a message "you are not a validated" or something like this. Apparently a bug in the software, but rather annoying. Generally it's just GREAT - thanks for this opportunity to try out remote operation.

Very nice, but need wider field of view. Found some note about an agate.

This was fun! (Though I didn't succeed in uncovering anything.)

It really is cool.

Neat!

*** The shiny metallic object at x=407, y=408 is a bottle opener distributed as a promotional item a few years back by Bang & Olufsen (consumer audio manufacturer). It lies upside-down.

This is cool. Thanks. I'm telling all my friends.

*** Discovered a Smithsonian (magazine?). Good show. Looks like WWW's discovered its version of the digits of pi problem. I'd say you're at about 3.1459.

An excellent use of the WWW. This project could really be expanded; for example, I'm wondering if all the operators could pool their resources to map the domain, or to work cooperatively over a long distance. For example, I just e-mailed some one on the other side of the big pond regarding a certain object. The possibilities are really amazing. Maybe you should get a second robot? Or perhaps a different camera so someone can see the whole domain, and send messages to the operator (sort of a scout). You might want to put a light beam pointing where the air jet is supposed to hit. All in all, an excellent page. A.

Suggestion: if no action by the operator within a period of 60 seconds, remove the operator from the queue.

***This was tres cool. I was operating your robot whilst sitting in Houston watching the crew of STS-64 operate their controls in Discovery. That crew will be using their robot arm to pluck a spacecraft from orbit tomorrow. How shall I conclude? By saying I'll be back. ***

Way cool....

Success, I excavated the watch. I do wish there was a timeout on inactive operators. It's boring watching the thing sit still for 10 minutes. Also, the air appears to be slightly to the left of the camera position.

I found what I think was a watch at 554,524 but didn't have enough air-power to excavate it -- It was fun though!

An interesting system - although I had a couple of problems with it. The first few air puffs I gave did not seem to have any effect. Also, when I went into the left-hand side of the table, it was all black.

I'm looking forward for a trip through Amerika. (From behind my workstation, of course!)

This is extremely cool. I wish I got more time tho...the update takes long that I only got to make 4-5 moves. It is a very good demontration of what can be accomplished in real-time over the internet and definately points the way to more real- world applications of the net.

Nice work! I found the training and queuing implementations quite illuminating. I had some trouble getting from the queue to actual robot operation. I expected by hitting update periodically I would eventually land in the operators area.

It's very interesting, but the figure is a little bit difficult to understand. It would be better, I guess, that the the figure is looked from upward.

*** Oh whee, what fun. It's an amazing example of the power of the Web. When will you be able to grab and drop objects? Will neurosurgery be available sometime soon?

hello, It's Nice system. This is very interesting! But, I am very bad at English. So, difficult to tell my impression to you. sorry. -- Satoshi Zakimi E-mail: zak@ocean.ie.u-ryukyu.ac.jp

Quite interesting! Keep movin'!

Cool !!!!!!!!

Really amazing. Congratulations. *** 1001 283 to find out what's a mosaic. Greetings from the cold Switzerland.

This was fun! Tell me when you make other developments! I could move the robot so easily! I am amazed... I tried to press the red button but did not see any effect, I guess I was not on the correct zone. See you soon!! E-mail : luzeaux@etca.fr http://www.etca.fr/Personne/Multicapteur/Luzeaux/

Fun, Thanks again.

Hi, I thought it was a blast, and an excellent combination of physical and digital power. Now when do we get to operate the moon rover!! Thanks, Nick Murray nam@csi.compuserve.com

This is absolutely amazing. This is truly interactive technology. Thanks for allowing me to use it. Charles

Whew. This is easily the strangest 5 minutes I've spent online. I'm not quite sure what to think of it all. pretty cool, tho!! My co-workers here were wondering why I was so quiet for those 5... ah well, back to work... (p.s. worked pretty well from a PC w/ WinMosaic and a 56K leased connect... I can't wait til I can justify the T1 upgrade ... -jrp

*** fools gold + note @ 790/461 *** turquoise + note @ 788/440 Was fun! Greetings from Scripps Inst. of Oceanography in San Diego... Take it easy, Stefan/

I am not Roger Kou...but it was fun anyway.

Wow! It is amazing how much faster five minutes is when it is your turn on the robot. +++What a freaky looking octopus!!!

This is extremely impressive. It should be nominated for a best of the web award. I was actually surprised at how fast the display refresh was considering the distance I am from the site (Australia). I do a lot of demonstrations of the power of the web and to corporations and government organisations, and will definitely use this in my next seminar. Please don't move it or delete it. gregorys@dstc.edu.au

Fantastic idea! This is the future, and how the power of the Internet is going to come into its own... Advice for other users: If your connection is slow (like mine), you only get about three or four movements before your time runs out, so don't expect too much.

It was a terrific cyber experience...

Very well done. *** Smithsonian sign; perhaps not quite so ancient ;-) -Paul Phillips

Got de-recognized once in mid-poof. Where's the joystick? Definitely a slick idea! Proves that even buggy, preliminary software is worth turning loose before that last tweak. Operating from Hawaii helps, because everybody on the mainland has already gone home. I'm going out for some coffee!

Not much found. Looks like a rock collection.

** Very Impressive

Outstanding use of cgi scripts and image maps. It is annoying to have a network glitch cause one update to use up all five minutes of energy, though.

Superb!

A suggestion to save time - if the camera is in the "raised" position, the user should be able to hit the compressed air button with the effect of the robot lowering and releasing the compressed air in one action. Otherwise, great!

It isn't that hard to confuse the cgi program by using your window history...

This is great!!! Although I didn't have enough time to clear the debris off, it was still very interesting.

The first time I tried to blow away some dedris, it no longer recognized me as the operator, and I still had 3 minutes left!

*** A Wheel, of some sort.

Cool! Cool! Cool!

Very clever.

I found a ***paper talking about the heardman and their flock. Or something. I didn't get to clear much of it off. I'll have to try harder...

More time too.

Can I blow harder? And maybe go down deeper? Color would be nice too.

*WOW* Five minutes really flys by. What makes some of the images so much larger then others? (they seemed to vary from 14K to 22K) I found ***WIRED, but it was hard to spray the air off of it. How much do these robots cost anyway?

This is really nifty... Wow. *** I wonder what that thing that had a "B" on it was... I didn't quite get able to clear it off enough to see. Oh well. Thanks!

Great Stuff. I find new things every time.. But 5 minutes is too short.. I'm one of the unlucky 14.4bps users and it takes a while to update my picture. Also: A few bugs when hangin out in the observation area.. I was in the top three waiting, but my name never showed up in the list on the bottom... To quote a famous line: I will be back..

it's very interesting to operate remotely thru www/mosaic!

Still great stuff folks . . . . I like the Mosaic reference in the bottom right corner...

Exellent!!! Now, how about wheels on the robot and let us visit the campus? Congrats for a very interesting site.

Got a message that you were experiencing technical difficulties. Hope it wasn't something I did ! An amazing set-up.

Lots of minor bugs in this thing. Smetimes the operator can't actually cause any response. I noticed this apparently happening to other people in the queue, too. Also, while I was the operator, a couple of times the system would "forget" who I was, requiring me to re-enter my password to continue the session. On the good side, though, while I still didn't find the cup of coffee I so desperately need, I did find the ***coffee cup***. Instead of coffee, all it contained was a couple of outdated definitions of the word "mosaic". -- Steve Williams

I currently work on the Space Station Program at NASA and we have been told that there will be no telescience capability on the program for science users. This demonstrates that this capability can be implemented with low bandwith. I'm very impressed!

I just woke up. Need some coffee. Can't find any here so far. Keep looking... have to keep looking...

Really good, even from across the Atlantic.

martin was right. it is neat.

Time's too short... Why not let users play indefinitely when no-one is waiting? The up/down (Z) buttons are confusing -- I keep forgetting whether a black up arrow means that I'm at the top position or not... Otherwise, great fun!!!!!!

Oops - bit of a bug here guys.... Someone was operating the robot, I added myself to the queue - only one name in the queue - but it wasn't mine! Must have been that last person who logged in? anyway, I am Dave Henion, email henion@japan.sbi.com NOT Zunaid Kazi. Otherwise, best of the web vote from me!

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Someone should tell NASA about this: it'll be an opportunity for them to cut down costs by using the internet community in stead of paid operators:-)

Five minutes is not much when you try to operate the robot from 6000 miles (or more) away. Apart from that, I think this set-up definitly deservers a prize for best Internet gadget. I'll pass around the http address to the MultiMedia group at our Institute. I'm sure they will be interested. Thanks for the ride.

Wonderful example of cgi and html usage with Mosaic.

This is fascinating! It's things like this that give us a fantastic demonstration of the many capabilities of the Internet. Fight on!

WOW!

some overall sense of the arm in motion would be very gratifying. I had some focus problems as well, especially with the ccd lowered. ***newspaper/catalog scrap ***edge of the pebble box

Fascinating - First the Coke machine, then the coffee pot, now a Robot! All on the Internet. The people at the seminar I gave this afternoon had a wonderful time thinking of all of the different things they could do.

Come to Wimsey some time and see us. Our Home Page

Great concept! Some of the images were a little blury, even after shooting it with compressed air, but overall it was very interesting.

people driving the damn robot from overseas are readily frustrated by the short time allowed! why do I keep trying? I may be psychotic. peace --todd

Now I am doubtful of Nevada/Excavation/Classified/Laika etc Anyway, It is still one of the best sites. Gopal`s Home page

< a href = "http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~gdoraisw/home.html">Here is my Homepage

Very well done - virtual exploring at its best, this even beats the internet coffee machine! A perfect example of the cyberworld reaching out into the real world.

THIS IS REAL FUN!! FROM MY TRAVELS IN THE WWW VIRTUAL WORLD THIS IS ONE APPLICATION THAT IS REAL! GREAT FUN & PLEASE LET US OPERATE OUR WWW - "DANTE" FOR MORE TIME AT A STRETCH!. THANKS.

It's a great project. I'm finding it tough to stay interested working over a 14.4 modem link.

I',m NOT \\ Brad Allen I'm Cristian Allendes V ... sorry bt your system have a Bug ... ;)

I'm impressed - if in fact this is real and not just a clever software ruse. Even so, if it is a ruse, I'm still impressed. One suggestion Ihttp://www.cecer.army.mil/ might make is to have an overlay grid scale in meters or decimeters on the crescent diagram as well as an clickable on/off grid for the image. I plan on telling our robotics folks here at USA CERL about this. I think they just might be interested. - Larry Nelson, US Army CERL, Unix Sys/Net Admin (http://www.cecer.army.mil/)

thanks for the turn at the controls. this is a very imaginative use of the web. it would be interesting to know more about the implementation, hardware, net connection and such. < david

Totally kewl! I'd love to be able to see the robot from an outside perspective; perhaps a video camera watching the robot and table multicast over the MBONE? Thanks for letting me play!

It's great !!!!!! But the time is very fast ... =)

Great application of WWW technology.

wow! very very cool. I mean really cool. I'll take this over 5000 channels of television.

More time!!!

This is a fun application of the Web. I'm looking forward to being able to control a real robot sometime in the future - perhaps one that's on the moon!

Hey, guys, whoever thought this one up is brilliant! The best use yet for the web since Pizza Hut! Now if this interface could only operate the Shuttle's Arm....

Tee hee! That's pretty cool! It took me a while to figure out what was debris and if I was at the bottom or not. All in all, tho, it was really fun. Kudos on a really nifty use of the WWW :-) Dabe

Most impressive demo of the potential of the Web! I'm still trying to convince myself I was controlling an actual robot... in Cyberspace, it might just as well have been clever software presenting me graphic images. How would anyone ever detect the difference? A fine job, and I'll be back soon. Oh, yeah... I seem to have uncovered, at the first site, two pieces of conduit or pipe, running parallel, one light, the other dark (I have a gray-scale monitor, so can't give you colors). Then again, that might have been a double _rim_ of something circular and mostly still hidden. At the second site, I uncovered part of a page from a telephone book (Yellow pages, if I remember correctly).

This is the best I've seen so far ! I always wanted to operate a real robot atleast with a joy stick - but didnt know I could do it with plain MOSAIC !! Congradulations ! - Karthik

This is so cool! We work with mobile robots here, and I thought that it would be a neat use of technology to be able to control a robot over the net. I'm glad to see that you folks have done it. It would also be neat to have a second camera as an overview of the scene; to see the robot arm itself. Keep up the good work! Cheers Kelly

Wow, Impressive! Gardening from work?

Great demo!!

My IP connection is too slow to make this really effective but it is an really good example of the power of this technology.

Great, you will see me again. Stefan

Just started - interesting !!!!!

This was great. Definitely one of the most innovative uses of the Web that I've seen. - J.C.

"Sandstone was used to form molds for sliver casting" says the card. Even got a glimpse of the silver! Now, to clear the debris from it...

That was fun. Seemed like a very short 5 minutes! Looked like a dead crab in there, together with a card talking about sandstone. Great response time, given the network, processing and actual robot movement. Wish I was sat in the lab seeing what everyone on the net is doing!

Way cool! Where can I buy my Mercury Region Explorer's Kit?

Found a little squid on ruler (not Metric!) and open box of Diamond Safty matches. (642,338,170)

Very well implemented system you have here. It was fun to use the robotarm and even here in the Netherlands, response was fairly quick. Good luck with the project! See you on Mars

Great idea and fantasic implementation of Web technology. I'm sure this will be a favorite site for Web surfers.

Response time is fairly slow (Ireland). Is there a restriction on the maximum no. of users who can queue ? Would it be feasible to continually transmit an mpeg film in response to user input for better real-time control ? Very interesting concept though...

This is great, but slow from Norway at daytime... Will try again Sunday. Five minutes is nothing!

Dakota State University

Fabulous experience. I was taking screen dumps which slowed me down. Would like a robot grab also! Congrats on a fascinating system.

It's a neat set-up. Thanks for making it available!

I bet all the sands been moved off and on every object at least 10 times.. :)

Make the time a bit longer during off peak hourse?

Is this real or did you guys work up some intricate series of images that you pieced together into a quasi interactive video on the web? It's neat and all and it looks like a lot of people have been here, thus the amount of already cleared rubble, but the reality of it is doubtful.

Very nice service... found a keyring or whatever.. :)

I found a photograph of a pathetically, empty face and a sheet of paper with "WIRE" printed on it. It's quite obvious, the civilization destroyed by the "testing" consisted of mindless, 'wired', zombies...too much coffee, perhaps.

Wonderful!

Well done guys, cool! What kind of CRCs are you using? What is the gamma factor?

That was a very interesting experience.

Hmmm, still can't decide if this is for real or not. That jet of air must be pretty powerful if it is real because I tried to uncover a scrap of paper with some text on it and it blew so much sand it re-buried the paper! Darn. C'ya, Nathan

I am quite fascinated by this remote control system but I am unclear as to where this robot is actually located. Considering the limitations of this connection via SLIP though a 14.4 modem, I am anxious to try operation of the robot through a PC which is connected directly to the backbone. Still, I suspect that this robot arm is not in some desolate location but that you people have a sand box sitting in the computer lab in which you've dropped miscellaneous items for us to uncover and read. Am I right? Nevertheless, the robot control interface uses Mosaic's capabilities quite well! I am impressed. Thanks, Nathan

Hmm, Nice idea! However, what is the goal of this project? There is a group I am associated with at the VUB that is planning a teleoperation (of a kind) exercise in a few months. Their provisional WWW page for this is http://arti.vub.ac.be/www/krest/robot/cbot.html however, as you will see, there work is somewhat provisonal. I'm impressed anyway! Cheers Emm

So that's what it's like to be a robot. Thanks.

The artifacts appear to be the product of a civilization with well developed manufacturing capability. Clearly, this is not evidence of a primitive society. This fact, coupled with the apparent absence of color and the operation delays consistent with long range communication, inescapably point to the conclusion that this project is a front for secret excavation of an ancient civilization on Earth's moon. I can only assume that the sponsors were driven to exploiting the archaelogical labors of unsuspecting Internet explorers by funding insufficient to employ their own experts.

Yea! I liked it. This kind of projects allows people to explore the facilities of the net.

Now, if we could just get a look at those UFO's the US Air Force has at Nellis, via the Web!

We found two eyes and a round thing (a tire?)

This is cool! I can not believe that I just operated a real robot. I found something that looked like 1/2 a rainbow. Rita

Pretty nifty ... the update is a bit slow, but I guess that's to be expected :-) -matt

Very interesting. I was wondering if any of this technology would be applicable to any of the current Mars Rover programs.

Okay, so try this Home Page.
Not the last one... <sheepish grin>

You have earned a place on my Home Page.

Mark Willey - willeyma@expert.cc.purdue.edu

I loved it. Thanks. When I first found this page I thought it was another one of those AT&T commercials... ;-)

Thanks for the experience - Edi

Really great!!! Suggestion: create a movie of the movement of the arm or what the 'bot sees and offer the download of the resulting movie. Loved it. I found the watch at 542 , 533.

This is very cool, great Idea. Thx, -Alon

Wonderful!

Keep up the good work! A catalog of images of the hidden artifacts would be nice... Raj

Is it real? Is it Virtual? WHO CARES!!! This is great. Now, if I can just convince my wife that we need to have that 56Kbs line installed ... Keep it up!

Two things that would be nice to have: 1) a wider angle camera for global views 2) the ability to move the robot in very fine increments, so that one can continue to uncover a large object Keep up the good work!

Ooops! I didn't mean to quit right now. Maybe you can put an 'Are you sure you want to quit?' page when you hit 'quit'

Neat!

Ronk!

Hypert!

I really like this! Unfortunately the transatlantic link is a bit slow, but it's great fun anyways! The atmosphere on this page is well thought through, with buttons marked "Proceed to the Observation Area" rather than "Observation". Makes me feel good. Now we're just waiting for the first moving robot on the moon operateable from WWW :-) Simply a great idea. /Viktor...

This is way cool. This is by far the best site on the web yet.

A couple of suggestions: add a grid to the x-y plot on the left, with each square being one video image width maybe add a second global view camera that can be selected at the start so the operator can see a wider view

A bug caused me to suddenly not be recognized as the operator. But it was a lot of fun anyway!

Is it possible to have unlimited time as operator if there is noone else in the Q ?. If someone joined the Q (after 5 mins) then the current operator would be forced off , and would rejoin the Q (if they desired). Just an idea;)

I found a dictionary page beginning wit te word "Mosaic"... now 'ow did it get tere I wonder..

I don't believe I ave seen a nicer application of science, or it's money on te net. (Sorry, my 'aitc' key doesn't work!) Ever read te book, Eart by David Brin...

This is really fantastic! Keep up the Good Work!!

GREAT IDEA!

Thanks for this experience. I need more bandwith !

Great fun!...how about an online pool playing robot?;)) seriously...this page is good...I liked it a lot. i

A great idea. Could be a runner-up for biggest bandwidth user since JPL's comet site!

Great idea! This is the most unique thing that I have found on WWW yet!

Interesting

tnx es 73.

Too much fun... Is this legal? Thanks for putting this on line.

I'm very impressed. I'm currently working on Z39.50 (Search and Retrieval) protocol and have been tracking developments on the WWW for some time but this is very different, and an intriguing use of the technology.

Thanks! This was one of the more interesting things I've found on the web!

Thanks for all the fish. The mac version of mosaic worked much better for me, but it slower. The Xmosaic 2.4 would have problems going from observation mode to operator mode and then sometimes would fall out of operator mode. I could always get to the operator mode by adding myself to the queue and it would recognize that I was the current operator and give me the operator page. All in all, a very fun WWW page.

Still had problems going from observation mode to operating mode. I'll try my mac next time.

I like it. Limited, but a good start with a reasonable interface to deal with the non real time aspects of controlling a remote device.

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It was fun. It was kind of broken when it became my turn to operate. I did not get control until I left that page and re-entered my password.

Very Ingenious.

This was fun. I would humbly recommend that the interface permit the user to naturally "dial in" the xyz coordinates. --David G. Stork

Fascinating, but how do I know that I was operating a real robot and not operating in the world of virtual reality? Does it matter?

Congratulations! The first hilarious artwork I have encountered out here! My favorite moment was when I uncovered a small man sitting at a computer terminal who pushed a button which made my chair go up and down, and from time to time I got short blasts of air in my face, apparently coming from the screen...

I have discovered that the zone is inhabited by giant squids and radio-active mutant rulers!! RUN-AWAY! Anyways, very cool. This sets my mind racing with new ideas. Grippers would be nice (as countless others have mentioned). How about some yaw rotation? Portland State University Chris Hufnagel chuff@ee.pdx.edu

That was fun! I think that the stuff that's already been found needs to be reburied more often, though... I found three objects that were entirely uncovered before I found a "fresh" one. My girlfriend sends her love and respect. Wow! She's not even a computer person and she enjoyed this... Thanks for setting it up. We'll be back. Bret and Mary

Nice interactive utilization of WWW... We are actually trying to set some things up in a similar fashion... Congrats!

IT IS DIFFICULT TO JUDGE THE DISTANCE IN THE CAMERA VIEW COMPARED TO THE SCHEMATIC VIEW ON THE RIGHT. BUT IT IS FUN.

x1034 y298 Ice cream scoop?

x58 Y340 Z0 What looks like Long Beach newspaper. Arts and Entertainment listings.

Pretty fun to play with; a bit slow to play across a 14.4k cslip connection, but still usable. Nice job!

almost every button i pressed seem to require loading 16666666666666 bytes, but with no effect no viewer or anything spawned. very frustrating. i'll keep trying tho'.

For some reason, I was unable to view the 1.6MB image in the observation room. It would transfer, but Mosaic refused to display the image. So, sadly, I was unable to participate.

What's with this 1.6 megabyte inlined image that never loads? I was looking forward to playing with the robot again, but something seems to have gone awry...

Interesting idea

It was quite a thrill to actually uncover an otherwise unrecognizable object. Is it a full-time job for someone to keep burying them again?

As others have mentioned, 5 mins over a 14.4 line just isn't long enough... batching commands is a good idea or alternatively look for ways to reduce the image load elapsed time between changes. I wonder if transparant GIFs might offer something to build upon for this? Can we get a MPEG or Quicktime movie of the last lot of camera shots? Say keep a rolling 1MB's worth of pictures (or would that be considered as a cheating aid I wonder?) Once again many thanks for this impressive demonstration. I look forward to it spawning all sorts of other ideas - how about controlling a remote TV to wander around the Smithsonian or the UK Natural Science Museum...Or wandering around a real art gallery...

Very interesting concept. This excites all sorts of ideas for Web applications. Great implementation!

Very cool interface. How do you authenticate the session? I noticed that when I tried to reuse a page it choked. Thanks for opening this to the Web community. -- Mike Bakula, Institute for the Learning Sciences

Fascinating. I am at work (!?) in the DEC plant in Chihuahua Mexico operating a robot via a link to my plant in Albuquerque NM. Love it! /john

This is without a doubt the most amazing thing I've ever encountered on the net, bar none. After 18 years out here, I didn't expect anything to be this surprising. It will be interesting to see where things go from here. Good luck with your network connection, www.usc.edu is about to become the hottest site on the Web. Only one criticism - my 5 minutes went by in about 2. Ross Patterson Sterling Software, Inc. VM Software Division

Congratulations! This is an amazing WWW application. When will we have real-time video? :) Good work, Eric

Best WWW application I've seen yet. So when do we tele-operate the Shuttle??????? First we can order pizzas from Pizza Hut, now we can operate a robot arm. Yes the future looks good!

I never knew that archaeology could be such fun! Shame I didn't find any pieces of eight ...

This is Great! The only problem is the time wasted waiting for updates. This really shows the potential of the web. Keep up the good work!

Great! Very straight-forward interface; if only everything on Internet was like this! I really enjoyed it, thank you.

absolutely amazing, even more so since the technology which allows remote users to operate the arm is so straight-forward. Surely this will win in the next Best of the Web!! An outstanding job. Well done! p.s. what was all that writing I found on the left side? some numbers and letters -- looked like my scrawlings while planning my summer vacation.

I am very impressed by this! Definately one of the most unusual uses for the web. Any chance for color, full motion video, ability to pick up things? :-) Very neat. Good Luck with your projects.

This is great but could become very addictive to me and to the crowd of other students who were watching. gLeN

Remote operation of the robot was fascinating. I think the project is a success and will lead to other exciting ones.

Looks pretty nice stuff, though the 5 minutes is quite short time for examining the whole area. Zooming, air blasting and moving operates nicely. Interesting experiment.

2 pts: - error when I click on the blue border around the image. This is not serious as I can recover the image by clicking on the error image box - there need to be a way to have multiple moves before a refresh so time is not wasted on the intermediate images that really isn't wanted. What would be nice is - eg. click on a spot, toggle the up/down button, activate the blow/dig button and click on an "EXEC" button to execute the whole process in order. It would check the series of cmds to ensure it is correct before executing. As this is a bit of programming, maybe it could be reserved for 'advanced' users(level 2 clearance?)

I loved this. This will be great for classroom use. Unfortunately, I see this getting crowded soon. Oh well. Excellent job! "I'll be back." Gregg Holbert

First off - sorry about my email address... the field was too small to hold the adress in one go and I ended up double entering it.. It seems amazing that I can do this sitting at home in England over a 14.4 PPP dial-up from my Mac LCIII and still get an acceptable response. The mind boggles at the extensions to this concept. I found the whole process very addictive. BUT I had to log on three times when I got thrown off near the end of my time limits despite there being no one else waiting (as far as I could tell). I think that there is still a small glitch in the logic somewhere but I reckon that with this sort of system that you are better off making the software robust and safe even if that does mean that sometimes users get bumped accidently. This has opened up a whole new way of thinking in my mind. Many thanks for your work & for letting us share it.

This gets my vote for web site of the year. I thought it might be simulated, but when I blew the dirt of the watch I could watch the second hand, and the time was correct !!

Got my vote for best of the Web!

Super. Best on the Web.

Fabulous!

Do NCSA know about (1008,312)? ;-)

speechless.... Frans Rip

Fun. But is this robot really located in the Nevada desert :-)

This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen on my browser. At this stage merely for fun I guess, but with big potential for the future. Really great!!!

Very neat idea... It's a little frustrating from a 14.4 PPP connection but still has lots of potential.

more...more...I want more. So who gets to decide what kind of stuff you put in the box? When are you guys gonna have a multiuser version along the same lines as this?!

hmm... so how do I know that was real?? It was pretty neat anyway. OK It was really cool! thinking of the possibilities...

this is great. outstanding ...

I'd echo other peoples comments, namely excellent use of 5 minutes, but give us an ability to move the camera higher. (My current approach of grabbing a snapshot, shifting the camera, repeat, and then pasting the snapshots together to get a global picture is fun but too much a waste of time)

This is really neat! The possibilities are endless. We operate real things from any site on the Internet. We could do experments on the space station or Mars. Keep up the great work!

What a great project!!

Cool stuff!!

I feel like I am controlling a lunar rover from Earth! Great concept! Lembit Marder Cisco Systems Inc. lmarder@cisco.com

That was really nice! We are working on a similar project here at Indiana University with Stiquitos....You seem to have the jump on us.. :)

Great idea! Minas

This is a lot of fun! I'd like to see more interesting things in the bin -- maybe the robotic gang can order some Chinese food and put the fortunes in the bin. At least I'd know how my life is going to turn out after rooting around in the robot's litter box.

This would be even better if there were a Chimera/Onika interface for real-time control ( ;-) and live video for an SGI!

It was a lot of fun. This coupled with an Mbone live video feed would be terrific! I will show this to some others round here who will be quite interested in it. Great project! Robert

This is pretty cool! I just wonder what it must look like in the next working cubicle over. A little robot arm, jerking whiny motion, a puff of air, a cloud of kitty-litter dust and a hi-ho Silverrrrrr Awaaaaaaayyyyy! Ahem. Sorry. Wrong show. Nice demo though! I've told all my armchair archaeologist buddies. They'll be tearing your place apart looking for Egyptian goodies. :-) Thanks!

Excellent! Definitely will have to talk about this in my next lecture!

I didn't find anything.

Great fun

Very interesting. Lag is not too bad from U of Alberta.

This will win the prize for Best WWW Site 1994!

This was great... somehow I feel like I'm a part of history being made...

Well, the second time around the system seems to have lost track of me when I was operating the robot. The good news is that the login procedure puts you right back in the driver's seat. Camera images were a bit fuzzy close up. But the guys enjoyed the demo (Hi Sam & Yong!).

This was interesting, but there is a bit of flakiness with the server thinking I was not the operator when in fact I was. A simple re-login fixed this, but I lost time. (No big deal, though.) I'll be back.

Some confusion remains as to the requirement for password entry following registration, which could be perhaps better explained or documented. But it's worth the figuring out, I just wish we could log wells Offshore this way, instead I never have images from where I really want them. Jeff Alford - Log Analyst Schlumberger GeoQuest Interpretation & Computing Services - New Orleans

Excellent demonstration of controlling an environment via a Web Server!

This is an excellent idea. I'll probably visit it frequently, if not just to watch others. Is there an object to the exercise? What if you actually find something?

It's like in Treasure Island, except there are no gold coins! (hey now, that's a good idea.).Thanx

neat stuff! 5 minutes isn't nearly enough time.

I'm controlling the system from other side of the world, and the robot moved to the point I wanted. It's great! Here in Tampere University of Technology we are also developing tele-operated robot, and it can be operated via Ethernet or telephone-line. The reasoning system is SGI-workstation equipped with Igrip software. So, if anyone out there has Igrip with LLTI, it is possible to arrange a demonstration where YOU can control the robot located here. Further information: sulkanen@cc.tut.fi

great fun

This is really cool, but I don't think my modem is fast enough to handle it. Fantastic idea though. Good Luck!

thanks

Great concept. I'm just glad you don't charge a quarter per turn :)

Thanks Again

Great Idea!!! It's nice that you are letting the public interact with you neat system. All of the screens and interactions are excellent!!!

Another wild ride.

Had a wonderful time! I can't wait to get back in line to go "exploring" again. I second the idea of having some sort or light.

Very cool, looking forward to trying more stuff

Very Nice! I work in a Telerobotics organization and we are just getting a presence started on the Web. This is a very interesting interactive page. Thanks!!

I am impressed! Talk about interactive. This is really cool. I am sure to visit again soon.

BTW there seems to be a problrm with the log page (where yo are viewing this message) about halfway down the entries look like highlighted anchors. What about sending the video output to a CUSEEME reflector, so we could watch in near-real time and spend even more time goofing off?!

Fair dinkum, this must be the most interesting thing I have encountered on the WWW so far.

Congratulations on one of the coolest experiments yet. The implications are big and broad.

What can I say that hasn't been said before? Way, WAY cool! I was able to find a watch, a statue's head, and something that looked like a spatula. Alas, we at the Coast Community College District have nothing this cool on our server at present, but who knows, this may give some ideas to our staff.

What fun! I was looking at some elaborately shaped metal object next to a piece of paper with words on it. This is great!

Wow, this is definately the coolest interactive program I've seen on the net so far. It's definately going to inspire a lot of other similar projects. Great idea!

That was wild!!!! What I want to know is, who moved that metal "treasure" I was uncovering???? Now you see it, now you don't. Great idea!!

I got no idea of what I was looking at, but the thrill of working a robot so many miles from home is like being an Internet God. Way out, the program and the effort that must have been put into it. Gotta try it again!!

This is an interesting application. It could be used, for example, by the Challenger Learning Center networks as an extension of their programs. Have you thought about adding a feature that allows operators to explain what they are trying to accomplish so that subsequent operators can build upon their work?

You should get Bob Ballard to look at this. I don't know his email, but you could find it at Wood's Hole. He is very interested in this telepresence business.

Definitely the coolest thing I have seen on the Web for a while. Hope you get some good press out of this. It would be nice to be able to see a video of the session just completed, maybe from a top view. Best of luck.

Great Tool!!!!!! I think I will return to play the game again and find some funny things. (you can find me here ) Hope you visit me. ciao Werner

It's very interesting - of course, it's hard to really tell if it's real or being faked in a lab, or via a library of images. Still, I think you could get some good press on this.

Awesome, I can't wait to have my daughter try it. Yet another distraction for me and for her. I now wonder what the objective is in putting this on the net. Whatever, great job. A little more time would be great of course.

It is an fantastic application !! It is realy great. First time i read your announcement i thought it is a joke. But now i believe it is reality. 

I would like to see a shot of the whole area before and after me changing it. In the current system one can only see a very small snapshot of the area.

Who has put all that sand there? I was digging like mad but couldn't get to the bottom where all the gold must be. Give me something stronger than air, give me explosives! :-) If someone wants to dig further, go to (375,314). If you find something valuable, please tell me and we can split the profit.

Nifty! "The killer application of the nineties" (inflation of terms :-) How about making a video (shot from the side) of the robot in action available?

Guys, I like it! I'll certainly have another go sometime, but 5 minutes is really not very long at all for someone in Europe to play with it. Nice one, Tony.

I like It...

This is incredible! This is the best I've ever seen on the Web! The interface is very well designed and friendly, the instructions are clear and the connection is fast. What are we waiting for to launch this kind of machines into orbit and land them on the moon! Great.

This was thje third try, and the first time I really was able to move the robot. The other times I lost the connection....

What a lot of fun. I found a piece of paper with mathematical formula.

Patrick Jordan