Go on putting COOL stuff like this on the www!!!

Neat. Is it live or memorex? Consider optioning a larger camera view. It's a bitch scrolling around seeing: "Fre.. Gift Fr..." "Free... From S...." "Smiths..." "...thson..." "...sonian..." -JRO

*** what was that?

Very interesting. -A

Very Nice!!!! The World is at our FINGERTIPS!!!!!!!!

"You Are Cleared For Level 1 Robot Operations." The story of my life. ***Space Shuttle O-Ring at X:782, Y:471, Z:170. Must have fallen there...

Thank you

Found a watch.. need to set the time though. Just a little off!!

*** I wonder what the gift from smithsonian was *** If I could get throught a day without seeing some calculus, I'd die I like what I see so far

What an interesting application of the web. I wonder what will happen with this technology after it matures. I would like to see a little bit better camera on it, but I am surprised at how well it works. GOOD JOB!

Fun stuff! I didn't find anything, but this was great to see! Thanks

** HA! Found the trans-atlantic cable!! Yes! Free T3 Connection to the Internet..Awesome...now, just how to get the modem over there...

Cool web page...how about real time video with color -Anthony

** Continuing on the shared mission with Ron Vissers and Doug, we proceeded to begin the excavation of what seem- ed to be a picture of some sort. After Ron proceeded to clear the left portion of the 'playing card' we began to notice what seemed to be intelligent life?? Furthur excavation proceeded to uncover what seemed to be the remanents of a lost culture, probably involved in the 2 dimensional aspect of trading family photographs of eachothers worst looking relative... Coordinates - X:381 Y:538 Z:170

*** We found Aliens at X:394,Y:562. I Think They're invading!!!! Well, OK maybe not. But it does look like a trading card of sorts.

***Found something with writing that says "A free gift from the SMITHSONIAN' ***I wish that the resolution was better when the camera is in the close position

*** After establishing control of the remote arm, I proceeded to move to x:853 y:318 z:0, Finding a what seemed to be a white object. While consulting with Ron Vissers and Doug Oleinik remotely they also verified the object. I plan to pursue this wonderful system more often. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread...!!! Yeah!!

*** Smithsonian somthing or other *** Integral figures-Calculus (There must be some intelligent life on this world) This is by far the coolest thing since the popscicle stand. When do we go to Mars? Ooh Rah!

lot of fun. *** saw the free gift at Smithsonian

Well, it is amazing, but, for the speed here in Peru, it take a little to refresh the screen. That is not your problem, its mine :) Bye. Cesar

Looks like I unearthed a likeness of some tatooed alien likeform; this could take a few visits to get the hang of it. I like the idea though!

***Dictionary description of obsidian? I think it caught on fire. But I blew it out.

PRETTY COOL. GET SOME LIVE ANIMALS IN THERE AND LET US CHASE THEM! JUST KIDDING!

*** The shiny object is definitely a harmonica...

*** It looks like a M. HOHNER shock made in Germany, co-ordinates are 332,302 This is WAAAAY cool, I feel like I've discovered something. Were these object "PLACED" here, it just seems a little too convenient that there are so many objects in such a small area -rdh

*** found dictionary definitions for "Mosaic" and "mosaic" at around X:915, y: 329

found the object that Robin Hayes earlier discovered, and saved out a copy of the image for further investigation... (hoping to do some image enhancement to figure out what text is on this metalic object)

Didn't have time to look too closely, but I dug SOMETHING up it is metallic, and has some lettering on it.

This is a very worthwhile investment. I think more people should start using WWW like this.

The "Mosaic" dictionary entry won't blow away! :( Very fun, and clever.

***Dude! We saw a skeleton arm attached to a briefcase with handcuffs!!! ***We're driving out to the test site this weekend with radioactive safety gear ***and retrieve the body. Hopefully there's cash in the case. Cool site.

***I found what looked like a magazine or an ad flier.

Excellent idea! Good introduction page. Lots of good concepts.

Can anyone tell how to actually move the arm using the mosaic interface as it has proved very difficult from where I'm sitting is it just me or does anyone else find it tedious?

*** Sorry, no objects discovered

Swedish: Kul!

***I guess it is a sort of contemporary art museum hall. Is it correct? ***And what is the free gift a poster was referriong to? All best Gino Roncaglia (mc3430@mclink.it)

Neat... Kinda Slow though

Found some things I don't know what they are !

This is a lot of fun although rather slow. *** Found matches at 651,420 and tried to clear all debris.

Cool!!!! This is a GREAT Toy! *** Basil Observed *** Image of Human Eyes Observed

In demo (learning) mode, I encountered a file with a name that was more than 8 characters. I think it was raiders02.mpg, so naturally my dos machine couldn't get it. But I passed the test anyway and enjoyed using the camera. Thanks. Very cool idea. *** I didn't see any naked persons however...

*** did you see that naked woman ?

It's strange to do this, because I didn't got the feeling I was actually controlling a robot. It could have been a simple slideshow for me, instead. But it's a great idea.

an interesting idea. my use of the system was impaired by my use of a 2400 modem and a slow central line to the Net. I assume this system runs on a large file of images rather than actually having a little machine roaming a site. I will be back when i have bought a faster modem...

Interesting... finally got to run it. Ah, the things that keep one up too late...:)

*** Found a piece of paper in a bucket or dish. The paper was a cut-out from a dictionary defining MOSAIC. Cute...

Excellent work! Looking forward to seeing more virtual/physical world interface apps like this on the Internet...

This is my first time at this. Way cool! But is this a real robot arm I'm operating ora simulation?

This was great fun! I want to try it again now that I have had success!

Well, we both agree it's very cool, but it sure makes you yearn for BANDWIDTH!

Just thought that I`d try it out. Was kind of interesting.

Just thought that I`d try it out. Was kind of interesting.

still nothing, maybe tomorrow!

I don't really know what I uncovered, but maybe with some more practice everything will get better. Chuck

How about adding audio to complete the tele-operation feedback loop?

Enjoyed the captain's chair! Couldn't quite figure out which museum the ticket was for ... maybe next time. - FIG

I uncovered the "Art Museums" sign, but found it somehow unsatisfying. Which museums? What kind of art? And that lobster seems to have too many legs. But its obviously not a fossil, so maybe it needed that many legs to hike into Nevada from Baja. In any event, I have (what I think is) a terrific suggestion: Put another button on the control panel which when pushed will paste a scaled-down copy of the image on the left onto the diagram on the right. With this new function, the operators of the robot can collaborate to build up a photo-mosaic of the site. - Ed

cool! very interesting!

This is the first time I have ever been dealing with a robot. A nice experience. And I think that the team would be better improve the system and provide more control over the robot while giving more variety of environment. Thanks for giving me the time to operate the robot. :)

I cleaned off the clock and it reads 4:30, which puts it in a different time zone than I expected. Hmmm ... Indiana Jones was able to compenate for 25 centuries of planetary drift when he calculated the location of the Ark in the Map Room. Why can't I calculate the time zone shift between New York and Nevada correctly? - Ed

** clock @ (604, 536, 0), time shown was (aprox) 3:15, there was some reflection from a light source at 3 O'clock w.r.t the clock position. IDEA: Put in another robot-arm, a chess board (or any two player interactive board-game for that matter) and make the menu interactive for 2 players (first 2 in the queue), allow the pair only 5 mins. of playtime. The game is then continued by the next 2 players in the queue (the rest can still watch by remaining the queue and doing 'updates'.) Hard-code the board co-ordinates, so that the arm knows where to move next (use shortest path algorithm to move, the motion sequence being reach_grid->lift_item->move_to_grid->place/replace_item) .....just rambling off my mind.....(give it a thought) !

I'm wondering... how much of a real robot is this?

Is this rigged?

Russell Whitaker

Saw a portion of a Sweet Basil Package

This is neat! *** I found a small piece of paper which defined the word mosaic. I suppose it would be useful to record where it was, but I didn't think of it at the time.

I really like it! But too slow for me.... :( (.br)

Thanks for the interlude... I'll be back when I'm sick of studying again... should take about 5 minutes. ***dog chain clasp ***male doll head & shoulders ***unrecognizable(s)

*** Only thing I could identify looked like the metal part that you connect to a dog leash...

You run and you run to catch up with the sun,but its sinking ... racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older ... shorter of breath and one day closer to death!

thanks for giving me the chance to use the robot, I shall be back agin to have another look. I am doing a BSc in Visulisation (virtual reality) so this experiment interests me.

***found "diamond" match box, corks, i'm addicted!

** NASA ring ? @ (965, 358, 170) ** page from dictionary for word "mosaic" @ (924, 328, 170) ** metal loop (possibly plate with bottom cut out) @ (907, 312, 170) NOTE: elevation Z=170 or z=0 is valid for all Z. Got to get back to work !!

***Found the NASA button, a page from a book, some kind of ring, or mug. ***this is one of the best things i have seen!

**there was a white tile, about half uncovered at (344, 433, 0) It's my first time here and I find the concept extremely useful and thought-provoking. We at SIEMENS use something similar to operate remote Nuclear equipment using MODEMS/LAN/Internet. But I must give you full credit for bringing the idea to a simple, down to earth level; and that too providing a UI that is accessible to the (public) Internet community. Good Job, what next ?

pretty neat concept. although the camera is rather out of focus when the arm is down.

***not much progress since the last time.

***The object appeared to be some sort of adorned metallic thing. I thought it was a belt buckle, but there are other parts.

was a fun ride... nice toy :) Tim

Is todays topic seafood? I found a octopussy this time.

I found an alien!

Very nice interface. This might have lots of application! ***Discovered Smithsonian magazine and wine-bottle opener. Should've written down coordinates, i suppose....

Cool...this rules...heh heh heh

Hi, I used the robot and found a plastic lobster and a page from a dictionary.. Seems like a canned demo rather than a "live" robot control system!! /hawk PS. It was fun...

Wonderful! (well a bit hard to see but that's half the fun). I particularly like having to pass a test before operating the robot. Great idea1 I particularly like having to pass the test before operating the robot. Great idea!

***Found the metal cap which protects the cork on bottles of sparkling wine. ***Shampoo bottle (label?) ***Cork ***A quartz striker(?) package. Neat idea.

Thank This has real potential over the net as an ineracvtive tool

For my first experience, I found nothing but I will try it again soon. thank you for this very interesting high-range experience. .

I sort of stumbled onto this and was intrigued. I'm still not sure what the scope of the objects are that we're looking for. I thought I saw a small humanoid shape in the ground. No I'm not crazy.... Anyways, I'll be back to resume the hunt...

Interesting implementation of WWW!

*** What is the Quartz Scorcher in the middle top of the area?

I have no comments at this moment. I will use the robot arm in the future to show it as an example what you can do with an internet connection. Thank you.

*** Found "Sweet Basil"

*** There appears to be a working clock around coordinates 621,547 ??. The hands are advancing. It frequently pays to give several blasts of air, not just one. A much clearer picture often results.

I could not use the robot properly because, for some reason, Netscape was not loading some of the images. I'll try again.

I did not discovcer any objects, but i did see the corner of a piece of paper.

*** Maybe this is the edge of a plate ?

I seem to have found a rectangular object that looks something like a photograph. ***

Pretty fun. Wish the net was faster, but this is a great experiment nonetheless. Kam

Found the missing table leg from my dining room table. Thanks, RC

Thanks for the trip, it was great!

*** This is really great! *** Will it be possible to send color images back to the user?

Just like to say that this is the coolest application of the internet I have seen yet. I would love to see some people there, though. Maybe you should bury one of your grad students in the gravel. jokir.

Very interesting! I found a ***shampoo container and what looked like *** an instruction manual for a radio. Nicely done.

very fun, but what a bandwidth hog it must become!

Nothing truely remarkable. It seems that there is a good degree of litter at your site. Such as a box of diamond safety matches. I question whether or not the drone is at the said site.

Found a matchbox, pretty cool, (but also kinda cheesy). Would be nice to have a high-resolution image of site, & also hav both close & far images on screen at the same time.

I do not think that is a cow tongue...

We found a swivel thingy, and magnifying glass, or possibly a mirror. If you don't have a mirror in there now, I suggest that would be a neat object. We found what looked like a cow's toungue. Surely there isn't....

Need to some how transmit a cleaner image.

This is an excellent telepresence demonstration. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Now, just imagine several thousand of these on the surface of the Moon, used to teach children the basics of lunar regolith mining... Visit my home page.

This is amazing! A clearer picture would be great as it was very hard to see what I had found.

pretty cool a x-win version would be nice

Excellent demonstration! I look forward to the day when students on earth will be able to explore and interact with environments thousands or millions of miles away. Great job!! *** Discovered what appears to be a rolled up paper, perhaps a magazine or postcard

*** object found appears to be a roll of toilet paper. More time is needed for a positive identification.

I BELIEVE I SAW A WACKY WALL CRAWLER.

*** I discovered a piece of paper, perhaps a label from a *** spice bottle, that said "Sweet Basil." *** It was about half uncovered when I saw it, but *** I cleaned it up enough to be clearly read (it *** wasn't readable before). This is a really nifty and great thing you've done - a superior hack if there ever were one. Who'd have thought that one could use the web to control a physical object? Thanks!

fascinating - time flies when you are having fun. This is as frustrating as the claw crane at the boardwalk. Never really identifies any object.

This seems like a neat setup. The story is particularly good. I've tried twice to run the robot, but was dumped by some sort of system error the first time, and timed out before I could get a second image the next time. Your http server is *very* slow, sometimes a minute or two before it would start sending images. I'll keep trying; frustrated for now... - Don

What???? Where does the air blast go to in the image? I seem to bury more stuff than I uncover. Poor images. I think scientists doing this work at a real site would get better pictures. Is there a point to this. The concept seemed interesting but the implementation is weak.

Not enough time when using a slow connection. I was just about to move down to look at something when the time expired.

This was cool!!!!!

Greetings! I just tried my hand at cyberexcavation today and thought it was pretty cool indeed. I am very curious as to how you folks are doing this, as we are currently in the process of trying to implement something with a video camera involved with live video transmission thru a WWW Interface. I'l be around, thats for sure! Great work! See you soon, and oh yeah, make sure to check out my site, INTRRR NRRRD. Its all about techy, punky poo. Thanks.

Pretty cool, but I couldn't tell what I was looking at...

This is an incredible use of the web. Keep up the good work!!!

Girl, This thing is jus' a hoot! OOOOh child!

An interesting html page! Is this intended to allow us to feel what it would be like to control a robot out in space, underwater, etc? Thanks for letting me try it out - I only managed to locate a notice saying 'A FREE ???? FROM' before my time ran out.

Hey this thing is AMAZING!!!

Some PCs (256 color) have problems with palettes when using mosaic. Even on the ones that display correctly in 256 cols the images are quite poor (restricted grey palette. Please could you add an option to the observation screen to allow the downloading of the GIF to an external viewer which will solve these problems. Otherwise, a mind-boggling example of the potential of the technology and relevant to my present work in CBT/CAL for archaeology.

*** Attempting to read the triangular object partially revealed

***Found a slip a paper with a definition for Mosaic on it. Also a porcelain mug-like object.

*** Found a long thin object near 241,433. Looks somewhat like a piece of paper edge on.

***Just about to excavate an interesting piece of ground.

Very well done - and fun! Can I keep what I've found?

My second try. Didn't find anything real interesting except for the lobster!

This is really quite entertaining, even though I did not succeed in uncovering the piece of paper that I discovered. I'm going to get my 12 year old friend in to watch this. Bravo! manoj

*** I seem to have found a newspaper classified ad, but I couldn't read it all because it was partially covered with dirt, and the "air blower" thingy didn't seem to work (to do anything at all). Cool web site. You might consider giving the user more control over the robot. To speed up link time, make the graphic the image of the ground only, and use buttons (as on the bottom of this -- the comment form -- "Send comments" and "Erase comments") to move the arm in each of the four (or eight) directions one page at a time (one screenful). Display X and Y positions as text, not graphic.

This is really great. Real use for the words 'Virtual Reality'. I would love to see the project expanded to include a more sophisticated robot and more control options. Well Done. ***found what looked almost like a Pepsi can in the far left corner of the field. Ran out of time before I could completely un-bury it.

*** Found ad for Survivalist magnesium battery. This is excellent.

*** Found object in the Right hand area - About 1" *** thick, possible round, tapering to about 1/4" to the *** left. That can't POSSIBLY be five minutes!! Is a zoom out function possible? I understand that it would kind of take the fun out of it... but ... it takes you half the time to find anything, then the time you have left is not enough to identify your object...

I operated few times, as the link is very slow.

*** Located round object with symbols. Ran out of time *** Before I could identify it. Cool! Neat idea! I love it!

*** I found an ad for a Survivalists Special Magnesium *** Battery...

I didn't have enough time to decipher what I might be looking at through all that graniness

weird...but cool

Easy to move this thing around, but the resolution of the camera images on my screen was quite poor and though it looked at several points as if I'd "unearthed" something I couldn't quite tell if I'd actually done so. ***Thought at one point that I saw a small statue of a man. On the whole, this strikes me as a somewhat limited and not very exciting prototype. As virtual reality goes, it just wasn't very real.

*** I found many very small rocks. Sensors indicated no life forms. Looks like a good site for the Genesis Project.

Cool!

Hmmmm, whatever I found was print on a page which wuz "umop apisdn" :)

*** printed paper at 476, 448

I love it! What a great idea!!!

** I thought I might have found an object at 250,350, but, my energy ran out. Great experience, though. I will be back.

*** Was that a fishing weight? Has anyone used the robot's wheels(whatever) to roll over something to move it?

My hat's off to y'all. *** That multi-legged thing was pretty gross. *** The air burst resolved some pyrite, and the paper beneath it confirmed its identity. I'll be back. MOOhahahahaha!

gohliuyuigtp;luhio;jio;klj;ljk;kjl;kjhlujhuiuykhgk ljlk klkl kjlhkjl kjlhjklj jhklkhjl ipou yp pyu uy up yup yu puy uyipui piyu yui pyuip yiup ypu pyui py p

There should be a relationship between the time and the movement. On slow-connected sites, it is annoying to have to wait for a view of more gravel. - also, perhaps little shiny arrows can be placed in to give pointers.....

Thank you, I really enjoyed experiencing the ability to operate a machine all the way from Pittsburgh ! --mk

Resolution of the image could be improved Greetings, M.S. Woltjes

This is absolutely amazing. I know you have heard this before but this is absolutely amazing.

We would prefer a color image.

It's obviously out of date - I found a description of mosaic Perhaps it should be updated to Netscape! Couldn't find the mirror (at 210,304?) How large is the site - anyone found a ruler? Is it a wind up? It's great fun anyway

Well, I tried my hand at the robot again already. This exploration is quite addictive! Here's some comments on the things which I saw: ***At coordinates x605 y419 I found what I believe to be an empty box of "Diamond" brand matches. I think that the box says that it contained 32 matches at one point. ***At coordinates x391 y440 I found a very bright circular object. It appeared to either reflect light or produce light on its own. I do not know what this object may be. Thanks again for the entertaining time I had! eric

This was my first time trying out the robot. I had a lot of fun and it was very exciting. I did not pay careful attention to the objects which I discovered or their locations, but I will be more meticulous next time. I enjoyed this experience, and I will come back soon! Thanks! eric

Interface was slow, but amazing. I could not identify any objects.

This is quite an innovative interface. I hope that work goes well with it.

*** After lots of really interesting gravel, there was the Harmonica! Brilliant.

***sort of hard to see images. I found a note but then lost it. Fun. Maybe have one outside on a roof top.

Time is really short...

***Yeah, so I found the watch, blasted away some more material and can now report that it's 10:42:35. And that it's a "QUARTZ" watch. Oh, to see the effects of releasing compressed air!

***Found a watch!!!

***discovered what appears to be a metal clasp, commonly used to hold keys on a belt loop

way cool!!

Quite an interesting system you have set up. ***Found a place that said "A Free Gift from Smith". Could ***not identify the rest of it as time went out. Slow connection getting images, you understand...

Its rather intresting.. Well Ok.. Kinda K-Rad.. ;) Well I'm fairly impressed.. I just wish I had a faster connection.. 14.4 SLIP dosn't quite cut it with the image size, I dobt it.. But what about a crappy image option for lamers like me with slow SLIP's? *** Do you guys ever change the ground around?*** -SiD

Well I am 18 and have been building mrobots for about 4 yesrs this is not bad at all I am curently toryign to connect a robot to the Internet if you have any info on IO with mosaic please send me ssome e-mail. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

I didn't see anything

Pretty wild. is that the right image? (ugh) or do I have it wrong. looks like 4 shades of grey!

*** found the end of the "belt" with a square piece of white paper underneath. Looked like handmade paper. No writing.

Very cool application WWW technology. *** I uncoverered part of what appears to be a belt, buckle in the centre top of the quadrant, belt buried in a SE direction.

*** The object I see @ 713,514 seems to almost look like the handle to a hairbrush, with small designs and mirrored diamond-shaped pieces inlaid.

***It was round and sinister...... What a great idea , I'll be back !

awesome!

****Nothing there!?*%$%&#$@!***

This has got to be one of the best applications of the Web I have ever seen

Wow, really cool! I saw a rodent apparently chewing on an electrical cord, then the screen went black....

Best use of a WEB page that we have seen so far!!!! *** Our five minutes ran out before we were able to *** identify the object we zoomed in on We'll definitely be back to discover something!

All I can say is WOW! ***What is the head figure in there?

Great idea!!! On the job training on the net!!! When will it ever end. I hope we will be able to do this some day with a robot on Mars or the moon. Great experience, Thanks

Rats! I needed more time... Thanks again!

Wow! That was FUN! Thanks a lot! I found some written material...

very interesting.

This was a very interesting use of HTML... I have also considered the limitations of HTML in this type of application... I think a provision should be added so that the client will atuomatically request an update at a certian interval or add and extention that will allow a connected window that can be updated.

***Excavating a shiny object (round with protuberance - spectacles?!) at X=404,Y=441...?

Anyone thought to contact Prof Quatermass about all this? I hear he's an expert at uncovering the secrets of pits... J

*** Hmm.. Followed a linear feature (electrical cable?) across the field until it appears to go underground at about X=327,Y=438. No luck excavating (yet...). J

The time goes very quickly - had hardly got into searching a site. ***Try the location x=360,y=378,z=170. It's close to the left side of the inner curved edge of the arm's quadrant. There's some scraps of paper there, plus I think something else... The papers deal with some electronic system which involves radio & which may be suitable 'for emergency use'. The papers also give voltages (14.4 & 3V) & dimensions & weights... Thanks for the go - I'll be back! J

The time goes very quickly - had hardly got into searching a site. Try the location x=360,y=378,z=170. It's close to the left side of the inner curved edge of the arm's quadrant. There's some scraps of paper there, plus I think something else... Thanks for the go - I'll be back! J

Couldn't find anything

Couldb't find anything

***Best thing on the web so far.

Thank you very much for letting me use your robot! What a strange experience! I'm still not at all sure what I am looking for here ... ... but I'm sure I'll find out soon enough! Operations of longer than five minutes would be great at quiet periods like now ... ... but I am still amazed at the generosity of all those people with www servers that I visit. What do they get out of it - beyond a sense of satisfaction? All then best, B.

Seems like the ride runs a bit short, regardless of the conservatism of movement. Oh well, better luck next time. JB

Excellent Adventure. 5 Minutes is too little time. Perhaps you should vary the time slot by the queue length.

Best WWW application I've seen yet!

Nice application, maybe tele-acting robots in the near futur will allow everyone to tele-work from home ! What about a nice ride on the moon, from my desk in Paris !

*** There seem to be several pieces of a newspaper -- I can hardly read the words... This is great!

Incredible use of web technology! I hope to see more projects of this nature in the future. T/s

THIS IS TOTALLY COOL. YOU DO HOWEVER, NEED TO ADD THE ABILITY TO PICK THINGS UP!

Found some text about DIN connectors near lower center. But ran out of time before I could I.D.

Very interesting, although I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at or for... Very strange, my affecting something so far away... But then again, it could all be a hoax :-) James

Found a Hohner Harmonica...was that in the key of "A" or "F?" How about adding a mirror to the articles--look yourself in the eye.

*** OBSIDIAN WAS USED TO MAKE A KNIFE ACCORDING TO A DOCUMENT. As I'm using this from the UK, the time between updates is slow hence I don't have time to move far. Maybe there should be a third view point even higher, so you can move the camera to further points in one jump.

Don't know what this dark object is... I'll try latter.

A nice toy ! I will be back...

not enough time :-(

Well, I think I moved the dictionary page a bit, finally. It takes practice to get back to where you were, but, it can be done! I got to drive about 7 times now, It's EASY when no one else is awake. Time to go to sleep! -Brian

*** I found what looks to be a page of a book or something with the definition of "Mosaic" in it. I will examine further. I am capturing some images... :) -Brian

This was very interesting to experience. I want to thank you for setting this up! I will have to try it via a faster link soon, and hopefully the images will be clearer (I'm 1024x768 right now, and I am a little unclear as to what I am looking at when it is in the down position). Thanks! -Brian

Definitely AMAZING.. Portends of the Future ?

nice...robot! but what am i suppose to do? :) what's the purpose of this? anyway..it fun.

Takes practice but I enjoyed the search. I'll try again soon. Thanks.

If only the Rollong Stones song "Time Is on My Side" held true! There is a semi-covered watch hidden in the pit. What does it all mean???!!!

Not Bad. It could always be faster. It would be nice if the interface were seperated into more than one graphic. Have the map a little bigger, and the buttons not in the graphic at all. It might be easier so you don't have this script which assembles the whole thing into one picture. Very nice! I enjoyed it a lot.

***Very interesting --I'm 11 ***and using my Dad's account.

My bandwidth here sucks (28.8k PPP and brain-damaged windoze software) but I'm very impressed bye the system that you have. My only problem with the system is the low-resolution and lack of color, but this would be a problem with bandwidth, too. Perhaps the contrast can be increased on the camera? -Kuj

This has been very interesting. I am involved in a related project at Sandia and would appreciate communicating with the robotics system designer for this effort.

Some piece of paper: obviously about com0uter equipment- saw a 5 din plug mentioned *** piece of paper with legible text

very intersesting site. but I can't tell what strange things I'm finding. Thanks for the enjoyable experience.

Has somebody read the entire ***printed document?

Personally affecting an environment 1000 miles away in real time is an exciting experience. Has anybody thought of putting a marker and peice of paper on one of these things? At any rate, I thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you.

should have a channel on irc for people using and watching this

whoa, cool way cool ...totally cool

Many objects readily visible, quite interesting concept. It does make me hunger for faster network connections! This has wonderful potential. Of course remote control of devices has been around for a long time, but the idea of putting an accessible interface on it is appealing.

***Found a definition of Mosaic at 912,344, couldn't make out all of it. ***Some kind of a pen, and a rubber lobster at 1004,295. This is truly fun, to bad it takes so long to get the new images.

in dutch i should call it 'geinig,grappig maar wat word je er wijzer van?' if you think my comments are interesting enough to read get a translation book *** only found some kind of lobster (not much but enough for the first time hehehe) KAUFMANN

*** Found some kind of battery instructions at 433,343 partly uncovered.

*** printed paper at: 364, 353 *** something with text 'sweet ?????' at 336, 362

This was great!

This is amazingly cool, and probably a prototype of truely useful apps that we'll be seeing in the near future. Moon, anyone?

An amazing project - it's hard to make out the images, especially in close up; they seem blurred. Perhaps with practice it will become clearer. How about a forms panel to specift coords exactly, in addition to clicking on the screen?

If anyones interested, the watch shows the time PST if you possition yourself over it and just wait 2-3 minutes you can see the minutes hand move.... Foud a dead Shrimp?(lowerRight hand corner) So what do we do when we have searched the entire area? How do we get to other levels?

Is this for real or what? So are there more levels?

*** Mans wrist watch at x=627, y=541. Has hours,minutes, and second hand, plus band.

I did not find much this time.

That was an interesting experience. And I will be sure to use it again.

Corrupted image data was sent, so I couldn't continue working with robot.

*** printed paper *** a metalic? circle What will happend if the objects are too high?

The most ineresting site I've been to yet very impressive! David

*** This is a very good idea. I found it an interesting challenge to try and find something. Unfortunately I did not manage to find anything. Better luck next time.

Would be helpful if you could give the arm a number of instructions and then get it to execute them in one go.

any plans for gripping arms? ***some sort of mattalic object under the photo

***i seem to have found a picture

Hey when can i tele-operate a probe on Mars?

I thank you very much for a little excitement! Now, what we need is a specific task to perform.

This is a fantastic idea - I just long for the day soon when this will be real time instead of delays - realtime video etc? any plans? thanks!

*** looks like a peice of paper with a definition of mosaic, in a bowl of sorts.

*** Something that looks like a small flashlight here.

Dem moon rocks are Tasty

This was a fun tele-experience. This was a trash dump with biomedical waste! Don't this will ever become unclassified.

Found a packet of Smithsonian tomato seeds. Nifty...

found nada

***Well, it would appear that whoever lived in the area used a form of English; perhaps even these primitive people had developed the idea of world interconnectivity thus inventing Mosaic literally millenia ahead of Western Europeans!

*** There seems to be some object (harmonica?) at (343,298) It has writing on it stating "M.ROHONER" (I can't be 100% sure because the light was hittin it wrong). It also had some very fine print saying "Made in Germany" *** At (915,343) there was a coffee cup containing a piece of paper with the definition of "Mosaic." Strange stuff...

Way Cool!!! How about a camera at the South Pole or on Dante on his next trip into a volcano or a camera on the next Mars mission.

A very neat set-up. Can't wait to do this with a robot on Mars. phk

Definitely more fun than a poke in the eye with a pointy stick.

Woo Woo!

Well, I have to say the whole concept of this site is great! I'm fairly new to the WWW (well, new within the last 6 months) and haven't seen anything like it! I think I'm hooked. Now how am I going to find time to do my homework?

***first time here - this is great!

***Found some sort of timepeice. Not quite sure what the time the clock stopped. Was it left by an American Anti-contamination team member. Was it left by a Russian spy (maybe I couldn't read it because it was in Crylic lettering?) Or was it left by some entity stranger still? Will I ever know the answer.

I'm very impressed. This is a fun project - I hope there will be more sites like this in the future. 

*** Er, I discovered a printed label saying "TURQUOISE was used as the principle rock in jewelry," at (835,491). Probably not a natural formation. :-)

***I think that this isn't reality. Is this just some computer simulated game which is supposedly interactive? ***Or is this, a bunch of bitmaps.... ***Long live Canada!!!!

absolutely lovely.

instead of sending the entire homepage, maybe only send the images. Isuspect this wouldn't improve the system response time by much but, maybe. Otherwise definitely one of more "cool" sites out here on the infobahn.

I agree - its pretty cool

*** using a 9600 line this is a very slow interface. The time compression from 5 minutes to just over thirty seconds "energy" was interesting! Otherwise, a nice concept implemented. Thank you.

Extremely cool.

***WIRED

Nothing useful yet, but this is a lot of fun.

***turquise was used as the principle rock in jewlry

***found a bust of a funny looking man. It had a shiny paper wrapped around the head.

Great Web Site!

Excellent fun, I'm getting one for my apartment. I found a ***Mosaic definition from the dictionary in a ***flower pot. Also found what I think is a ***picture. Well see next time.

5 minutes are hardly enough! ;-) Extremely interesting!

Pretty goofy stuff!

Hmm... I gave up due to net lag... if I'm on some time when the net's less busy I'll take a closer look.

All I can say is WOW!! What a brilliant idea! Congratulations, this is by far the coolest thing I have seen to date on the Internet. Todd.

. . . extremely poor "response time" today . . . it is nerly impossible to operate . . .

*** Ahhhh, it's not a matchbook .. but an open BOX of *** matches :)

***791, 427 compact case? ***918,330 paper in a bucket? ***975,280 keychain flashlight I'm hooked, you dirty little devils you.

***804,433 a black square object with it's middle covered. Blew the middle clear but ran out of time before I could step back to look at it.

***Found what looked like a pencil next to a piece of paper at 740, 496 and below that was a strange, gleaming curved tube that seemed to fork at the bottom. I was only able to follow the bottom of the fork before my time ran out but it seemed to taper into a cord or something. Weird place.

Wow... The teleoperation is really wonderful! There is only a little problem with the ccd camera (well it's not a real problem in fact). When the arm is lower, the image is less clear, a little fuzzy. Congratulations for this experimental system! And thanx to allow the community to try it. -- Bernard Van Haecke UCL University of Louvain, Belgium SIG-Supercomputer Center.

***Is this for real? If so it is an incredible idea and makes my mind boggle, if not it's cool any way.

***Interesting.

This is pretty darn cool. I cleaned off the ***Diamond logo*** with an air blast. Scott

Very strange, but interesting

Great stuff, thanks.

Fantastic!, It really brings the potential of the 'NET home. I'll be back for more later .... Bob Muscio

Great fun

I think this is a marvelous new application for the World Wide Web. *** I seem to have found a dictionary description of a *** Mortar and Pestle.

*** I'm pretty sure that was a cork from a bottle o' wine

Just wanted to say im impressed!

Great Stuff, Keep up the good work! Randy Cooke

***Great fun for the whole family. Now how about a robot with real time video =D ***

***tell me what that equation is!!!

Pretty interesting. I was slightly confused, however, because I had thought that we would be controlling the robot in real time. That's why I had to see this thing. However, the setup that you do have is really pretty cool.

*** Stopwatch and another one of those slips of paper on *** the use of minerals in history :) Serpentine? I don't *** recall hearing of that one before .. Quartz of course, *** I have :)

Thanks for the fun! Remember those silly philosophical questions about "..if you could press a button and a person in a distant land would die, but you would..", etc. - well now we can do some experiments! Find a philosophy major, put him under the robot, exchange the air gun, for, ..well you get the idea.

Hey, neat. Even with my 16-bit video, I could read "Smithsonian" on some kind of plaque or bric-a-brac at 260,399 at height 170.

I'd better use a 256-color video driver.

OF THE ITEMS I HAD A CHANCE TO SEE. I'VE BEEN LEFT WITH THE FEELING THAT A YOUNG BOY DROPPED HIS CIGAR BOX FULL OF THINGS HE HAD COLLECTED. AN EMPTY KEY RING A COUPLE OF TYPE WRITTEN CARDS WITH GEMS GLUED TO THEIR SURFACE. THE BUST OF A MAN IN UNIFORM. AN EMPTY MATCHBOX. ALL THESE ITEM INDICATE WE ARE NOT IN UNCHARTED TERRITORY AT ALL. NONE THE LESS ITS GREAT FUN TO POKE AROUND AND INTERACT WITH A ROBOT. I'LL BE BACK!!

I was amazed! More light would help but it is a fantastic idea!

Well, from the evidence I saw, my hypothesis would have to be that there are some grad students around here with too much time on their hands :-) I agree with the folks who said it would be nice to have a picture of the whole setup. Just a still, no need for it to be live. If you want to keep all the melodrama you could put it in this end-of-turn page.

*** The history of geology? :) What are those cards? *** In addition to the grante mortar and pestle one, there *** Is the one that talks about obsidian being used for *** Knife blades and a book of diamond matches

Obviously I'm going to need to go again at some point to learn more.. But, of course, classes call at the moment!

*** Ok, it IS a whistle .. and also there is that *** slip of paper with a math formula on it .. the reverse *** operation of a derivative. It's scary how easy such *** things are to forget.

This is really neat!! I enjoyed seeing the results of my commands on the screen. I wish I had more time but I understand that there must be a limit or no one else would get to play! Thanx!

*** Found a can-like object in the lower-right hand corner. Without light it was difficult to tell what the object was. A light source on the camera would be nice.

*** Coffee cup with a card inside *** Specs for a lifelong battery developed by Rayovac for *** the military *** Looks like a student activity list for a history major *** .... Things to attend and the like .. mostly Medieval *** and Renaissance *** Some index cards, one of which has 'GRANITE mortars and *** pestles were used to grind corn into meal' *** I think there's a whistle :) .. and some mysterious *** shiny thing :)

SOME SORT OF PAGE ABOUT A MAGNESIUM BATTERY???????????

Now this is Cyber!!!!

Hey This is a great tool! *** what is the object that is long cylindrical medium grey in colour? How many logons do you have a day? Are you constantly re-burying things so people can find them? What type of camera is being used for operator vision? Is the "debris" really packing peanuts -- we thought it looked a little like those things? The time delay in waiting for new images to come back was minimal as compared to other parts of the WWW.

i have no idea what that was.

DEL PUTAS.....

*** Well, it IS some sort of a paper that was written. The *** Corner I had excavated had what looked like a title as *** The world GRANITE was underlined. It also referred to *** corn and 'pest' .. perhaps an agricultural paper? :)

*** It is either a card or a sheet of paper. *** I wouldn't be surprised if it was a dissertation :)

*** agh ;) Well, I was waiting to get a picture of my last *** air blast. I had found what looked like thin sheets of *** metal or paper with 'U S ..' labels and had been trying *** to place an air blast to clear away the rest of the *** clearly English writing. *** My theory? Military or space equipment :)

I think a light attached to the same arm the camera is on would help considerably. I could not see anything when the arm was at its farthest clockwise position because there seemed to be deep shadow over there.

Im in Bogota-Colombia, im sorry but i couldnt move the robot.. because my mosaic because my mosaic dont work ..when i have to answer something g ..like my password ..dont appear the inbox. i dont know whats the problem..but i like this. *** ******

Occasionally when I try to use operate the robot I am not returned to the operating screen (like I usually am). Instead, I get an big button with what looks like paper with a tear in it. This takes me back to the robot operating screen, but nothing has changed (my comand was not followed). I guess this is an error message, but it would help if you told new users about it before they operate the robot.

Very interesting. I think you need some more objects.

***While looking for objects a noticed calculus notes; never thought that I would see those again. Robot is fast although if network is busy it can become tedious. It seems to be a great idea, implemented very well and with a lot of possibilities for interactivity in the future.

does anyone ever cover the things back up?

Extremely interesting and real fun to do !

*** . . . never did like calculus . . .

echt SUPER ey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! alla dann mache mir mal weita hear

I only began to uncover an object before my time was up. it is an amazing web demonstration - great job to whoever is responsible. Need to have a way of judging overall situational awareness though. It was very tough to do. in addition, it would be nice if there could be operator interaction - that way if someone is working on an area, later operators can continue the project - see how people not only work in reality through the web, but how they can work together to achieve some goal. just an idea. regards, tim

I only began to uncover an object before my time was up. it is an amazing web demonstration - great job to whoever is responsible. Need to have a way of judging overall situational awareness though. It was very tough to do. regards, tim

This is the best thing I've ever seen on a computer... VERRRRRRY GOOD and fun to use, interesting, amazing.

*** found a paper with a formula on it !

I just had a greyscale Monitor, but it was fascinating to command a robot in USA from a computer in Germany ! Next time I try a color monitor, may be time is not enough for real excavations?

This is way cool. I want to start running Firewalker probes climbing in volcanoes on Jupiter.

***So I found a watch & A peice of paper and what looked like a belt, I'm not sure if it was a belt I'll have to look again

way-cool! Is there a way to pick things up??

Is this for real? Was I seriously remotely operating a robot arm live? All I saw was a watch and some typed words.

Something went wrong. All the pictures are coming back broken (my computer does not understand what is being sent back to it).

this is one incredible set of web pages! I am amazed at what can be done with such a new development as this ***I lost something that looked like a piece of rubber when I tried to blow air and view it. ***was that a broken coffee mug? (on the right) I think I plowed right through it

Hey, I found something this time... *** Scrap of paper with an integral on it, followed by a series of steps in which the integral was simplified.

Fascinating idea. This is the sort of thing that I'd like to mess around with, if I had the spare time and equipment.

Not enouph time. When I got my connection I wasn't told. Fix it now!!!

Found a slip of paper with an equation, a label from a hair conditioner, and maybe the edge of a comb. Great project!

*** I need to look more but I think I found a shampoo box. (Definitely a hair product). This is cool, dudes!

Neat!!!!!!

***I found some sort of box? with the words quartz and fires o on it. Very cool concept!!! I love it keep coming up with these kinds of fresh ideas for the Web!

I found a watch, a paper, and another paper. The first piece said:Sediment was carved into tiny fetishes ... their flock. I don't know what the second piece said. Nick, 9 years old.

Suggestions: 1. As a working operator, I would like to see the list of waiting operators. 2. Why don't you show the e-mail address of the working operator (and of the registered observers?) 3. There could be a field for observers to enter comments for the working operator, like e.g.:"Is the watch still working?" This would make it more interactive between the _human_ users of your system :)

The "diamond" turned out to be a ***box of "diamond" matches. And then I saw the ***watch by following the ***leather strap, and it's still working! It was 10 past 1, probably eight hours difference to Berlin (we have 9:10 pm here). Great fun!

*** found a diamond with the word: diamond written in it!

The time was too short! *** I found a piece of paper with a description of some electric device, X=394, Y=361 There was too much dust/sand? covering the text to be blown away in my time...

I enjoy it much more when I am operating with a direct connection. Over a modem is _way_ too slow. Thank you very much.

This project is definetely interesting! Considering I can control a robot in Nevada while I'm sitting on my bed. Good job! -Joe

**Is that a pipe?

I found nothing. Maybe next time.

*** This time I found a cable which I could follow a couple of steps.

This is really great! It would be fun to have the possibility of moving things around. *** I found a couple of things but I could only recognize a kind of newspaper with an article about a museum.

*** Can't make out the object under the camera.. Need more time ! (or better light)

***(764,440): Found an object looking like a pipe next to a card saying: OBSIDIAN was used for knife blades because of the rock's sharp edge.

How is the air supply? I didn't observe any dust movement.

Tried to log objects found, but forgot to track coordinates. Oops!

Well that thing with K-12 on it turned out to be some sort of survival instructions. Where did this crap come from? Ah well, once more into the breach.

*** This time I found something that said K-12. It's hard to escape the feeling that it's not actually happening, even though I'm sure it is. Why would someone fake it? What's the point? Even so, when I press the 'Blow me' button (for want of a better name) and very little seems to have altered, I go into 'DOOM' mode, ie I hit the button, nothing happened, therefore there's nothing there. Wrong I know, but that's what goes through my head. If you want to know what I condider to be cool then click here. The robot's interface crashed a few times (or at least kicked me off without any explanation) while I was using it today. 5pm Adelaide, Australia time. :-) Dave

*** Discovery at X 269,Y 408 : a white tag,saying "A FREE GIFT FROM",and then a large red logo,sating "Smithsonian".There is more stuff to the south/ south/east,that looks like crinkled brown paper(??)

Absolutely fascinating,and one of the most interesting things I've discovered on the 'Net.This is actually a bit of a surprise to me - I wouldn't have thought that a sandpit with an attached robot would have been so stimulating.Congratulations . ***My discovery - that there is a page (from a dictionary?) ,ith mostly illegible words,in the very far left hand corner of the crescent available for movement.

Hmmm.. *** I found what looked loke a ski with a google eyed face on it and some sort of coiled loop thing.

DOH!! Timed out again. Perhaps 5 mts isn't long enough? How about letting people on for longer if there is no-one else in the queue? *** Found a coffee cup or a bucket or something with a note about Mosaic in it.

How cool!! If only I wasn't connected via a 14.4 PPP connection huh? So what did I find? *** I found a rubber prawn! Or at least that's what I looked like ;-)

Very interesting project.

I found the long, lost, hidden Pipe up at the top center!

Still cool after two gos. This is what I found: ***Watch (616,514) reading 8:31 @ 1029 EST. ***Obviously someone forgot that DST ended last month ***Art Museums flyer scrap (592, 532) @ 10:30 EST. ***Octopus object (689, 490) @ 10:32 EST ***Serpentine myth/charm paper (???, ???) @ 10:32 EST ***Paper was just northwest of the octopus. Okay, well, that's enough procrastination for now.

1st time out and saw a card with Mosaic written but couldnt read the rest. 5 minutes is way to short but I guess not if you are waiting to try it. looking foward to a lot more time here.

Very Cool. I had no idea what any of those pieces of paper were, but who knows... maybe I'll try this again some time.

*** Saw what appeared to be a brochure of exhibits to the Long *** beach museum. Character strings found include: "Screenings (310)" *** "Valid open" and "gallery open tues. and sat."

No objects discovered.

What fun! Only had enough time for 4 "turns" at my connect rate rate, so I am going to try again.

Not much today, oh well, someone before me found a nice little sheet with the deffinition of Mosaic. Cute!

*** found rectangular object appearing to be rectangular piece of paper imprinted with definition of "mosaic" at x:905 y:340 z:0. *** is this some sort of psychology experiment? - please email me with reply or more info.

***I found a whistle. The only difficulty that I had was in trying to determine how large the viewed object was. Perhaps put a small mark for scale reference in the view- screen, so as to give a sense of size to the operator. At first I thought I was dealing with an object that was six inches in size, but then realized that it was an object of perhaps an inch and a half in length. Otherwise this interface and system has a lot of promise.

*** something long and black in the upper left

cool... kewl even

*** at (647,410) there is a box of diamond matches.

Nice! Couldn't find nothing though...

Hmm.. Nice... :) Though I would like a bit more detailed picture..

Found a note.. ***AGATE Chips w... used as poi.. spears Patrly covered by a belt, or something similar

I found it exceedingly interesting.

Found and read a piece of paper in the left corner "*** This of Printing ... vention of movable... ized the distribution of.. exhibit of som 45 late med... books and manuscripts, thru Aug. *LAGUNA ART MUSEUM, 307 Cliff Dr. Laguna Tues.-Sun. 11am-5 pm. $3,$1.50 seniors & ... ID, members & children under 12 free (714)496531. Ameri- The Paintings of Augus François Gay the first compre- *THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM manu- hensive exhibition of the artist's colorful landscapes of Malibu, Greek and Roman anti.. Open rural Northern California thru Oct 9 ter drawings, 19th and 20th century. E... can photographs and medieval and Rep... re- *LANNAN FOUNDATION 5401 McConnell Ave: The founda- scripts housed in a re-created Roman... (310) tion features a series of contemporary art exhibition is its Tues.- Sun. 10am -5 pm; free, ad... gallery, including selections from its extensive collectio quired .See Film & Video Events Open Tues-Sun 11 am-5pm free (310) 306 -1004." 458-2003 Ars et lega... The Miroslaw Bal..ac 37.1 (cont.) Recent works by the re- Tenty manuscripts revealing... nowned Polish artist. Exhibit features six large-scale kinds of materials used in medieval ... sculpures in an artist designed installationn thru Sept. luminated books, thru Oct. 9. 11. The Making of a Medieval Book The painstaking book making process from preparing parchment, to writing *LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART, 2300 E. Ocean Blvd. Long- and illumination, to binding is shown in this display Beach, Open Wed....Sun , 10am 5pm (Fri til 8pm).$2. thru Feb. 12. children.............0) 439-211 André Kurtész:A Cant.mial Tribute This exhibit of .. ........................Concerts

This is FUN!

*** discovered a piece of newspaper covering a shiny metal object. Text on paper: 'Hair Thickening Growing Stronger And Healthier' and 'Impacted Serum Bacteria Shampoo Residue'

Found and read a piece of paper in the left corner " ...MUSEUM, 307 C... ....m-5 pm. $3,$1.50 ... ...children under 12 free (714)496531. ..ings of Augus François Gay the first compre- hensive exhibition of the artist's colorful landscapes of .. Northern California thru Oct 9 Foundation 5401 McConnell Ave: The founda- tion.. a series of contemporary art exhibition is its .. including selections from its extensive collections .. Tues-Sun 11 am-5pm free (310) 306 -1004." Miroslaw Bal..ac 37.1 (cont.) Recent works by the re- nowned Polish artist. Exhibit features six large-scale sculpures in an artist designed installationn thru Sept. 11. ..ACH MUSEUM OF ART, 2300 E. Ocean Blvd. Long- ..........Sun , 10am 5pm (Fri til 8pm).$2. .............0) 439-2119. ........................Concerts

***thought I saw some teeth(250,475) where I signed off. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful

***thought I saw some teeth where I signed off. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful

Didn't find much but thanks for the opportunity. My compliments on a fine interactivity.

Swell!

***Discovered via observation a dictionary reference to Mosaic ***Also noticed a discussion about PRC-25 PRC-77 (Military Radios???) FM type?

great job

Hmm, something big and dark in the right of the area. I also noticed some kind of red interference in the camera image when looking at this object, close up.

Cool. ***Found the 'Free Gift from Smithsonian...' card.

Looks great, guys. Found something just left of center, but I couldn't tell what it was.

System was down. Now operational at 18:50 PST

pretty rad - nice white rock dude

***I thought it was neat that there was a newspaper you could read, the entire thing was quite novel and interesting

I didn't know anything like this existed.

This was way too cool!

that's pretty nifty.

*** It's a whistle at 409,439! Tweet!

didn't find a thing this time...

*** uncovered part of a manual or cylinder with the word "survival" on it!

*** Tried to finish uncovering an article about Lincoln

*** found something saying 'Agate' and below 'used' just to the left of centre

Today I managed to uncover a harmonica and a small plastic lobster. Better hunting than I accomplished yesterday. I still think this is a cool way to pass idle time away.

*** a very nice clock a must say! a realy funny device you got hocked up on the net it feels wierd sitting in stockholm, sweden controling a robot arm. keep up a god work

This is way cool. I will be back.

Pretty cool! I didn't "unearth" anything on this first attempt - looks like I'll have to try a few more times.

Hmmm... nice. ***I don't know what any of the objects I saw were. I think color would help tremendously. Nice work.

*** Intrestesting

This is really neat - Abraham Lincoln and integral calculus at the same WWW site!

***Looked like a pen (or a handle to a knife) and a pad of post-it notes.

Brilliant Idea *** Pencil *** cellotape? *** text

*** I think that I have found a book but it is dificult to uncover.

That was fun. Thankyou. *** Found some matches and a belt. But what does it mean ? Regards Lance.

*** I discovered a piece of paper with an integral on it. Can anyone solve it??

This is way to cool!!!!!

*** Edge of object (lower left corner?) at location 361,506

This is excellent!!! *** Discovered s.th. with "output jack" and "emergency" on *** it. Guy after me kindly continued the job, so it turned *** out to be a "survivalist special long life magnesium *** battery" (or package thereof - they *can* cheat you...). What use do I have for a SSLLMB sitting across The Big Pond??? Bit of a technological over-overhead just for unearthing an old battery which problably should have been recycled long ago... :-)) Seriously, this is a splendid extension of Internet commun- ication - congratulations! I suggest the term "Real Virtuality" for this experiment. =============== Regards from Europe (Germany). MArtin (Anyone ever reading this?)

Kewel. This sure diverted me from the mpegview helper blues...

*** I found a strage looking bug-thing and something that looks like a coffee mug...

I came looking for treasure. I found crap. Jack. You know, nada! I want some one to put money into the tank. At least there would be a motive!! -Bob

Now I know what it's like to work at the Jet Propulsion Lab. "Hey, I wonder what that spot is on Saturn?" "Well, let's ask Voyager to send another picture, then come back after lunch and look at it. If we don't see anything, maybe we'll image-enhance it and find out five years from now."

cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is very very very cool. I wish my University did stuff as neat as this. It demonstrates such potential for research, education, and entertainment.

***found what I beleive to be a mini-Mag light flashlight on a key ring at approx. (923,288) what a great idea!

This stuff is addictive!

*** Found ornate handle of dagger

Neat program, however I think it requires a faster connection than I have, updates at 14.4 are a little slow.... I hope to come back and try to find something again. It would be nice to know if there is anyone waiting in the queue. If not, then perhaps the robot operating time could be extended until someone shows up? Thanks!

I find the interactive discovery process intriguing. I'd like to see an interactive science lab for kids -- a way to put the science "labs" on the www. There's an NSF project at Carnegie Mellon University called ACSE (run by Phil Miller) that has students run virtual experiments using an editable computer simulation and animations for a virtual lab experience -- combined with a robot, it would greatly enhance the students' learning opportunities. Great idea!

Pretty slick! I just wish I could have a faster modem

***Found pipe

***Found a book

*** Very impressed. Hard to get a feel for minimum resolution of motion.

*** Pipe type object next to manuscript. Pipe curved.

This was great! A cool deal. I wish I could Zoom in and out, so I could conserve engergy and extend the robot arm when needed.

The picture is to dark. Please turn on the ligths :)

All in all a very interesting experience. The only things that I was able to identify were an article about Abraham Lincoln and part of a math equation. Definitely a cool way to spend 5 minutes while running a gel!

*** Equation in vicinity 318, 352; Any guesses? ***

I found an equation! It looks familiar but I'll have to think about it.

What a blast! *** Found newspaper *** Found cup/mug GO SC --- Go SC --- Beat UCLA --- Beat UCLA Good luck on your way to the ROSE BOWL!!!

Well, that was a lot of fun, but that 5 minutes sure was short. What a great idea!

At z=0 the camera view is fuzzy and there is inadequate lighting. Suggest placing a light on the arm. Also, the air pulse seemed to scatter particles randomly rather than directing them away from the center of the view. Suggest increasing power of the air pulse. I would also like to be able to enter (x,y) rather than merely clicking for it. Besides the above, I really enjoyed it and I feel that this is a beautiful example of telerobotics.

***Jimmy Hoffa at 731,435!!

glad to see it's working again . . .

*** I saw a cylindrical object, like a pencil *** This is fantastic! I thought Internet Coke Machines were neat, but this takes the cake.

***Wonderful idea

Wow! Five minutes goes pretty quickly. ***Found an edge of something (curled paper or bottle) with part of a word visable "...sonian"***

***I BELIEVE I SAW A PHOTO OF A MARTIAN***

COOL!!!

Excellent experience! I could've used a little more light though. :( Perhaps another view for observers to see from a side view might be interesting too! - Edward avila@ycc.kodak.com

Cool!

I find your robot operating system very interesting. would you send me please more information about this project.

Found nothing of interest :-(

It would be fun if one could do something else like looking around in the room where the robot is Its kind of boring like it is. A

You hit the nail on the head: the sensation is distinct, and exactly that of reaching back out of the net, re-entering the physical world. I'm on a SLIP account (14.4k baud) so the video update rate is engouh to make this an academic thrill nire than it should be. Perhaps lower the video data somehow, a smaller image, lower res, capturing outlines at your end to transmit only an edge information mapping, then maybe add video at user request when the detail work comes in.

***396,338 Seems to be part of a manual or catalog that describes something to do with 'output jacks.' There are technical specifications on this.

This is way cool! now - BANDWIDTH BANDWIDTH!

Excellent! Found a piece of paper with the letters "mor" on it. "Mortuary"? Seemd like everyone in front of me in the queue didn't take any action. I thought the robot would be broken, but was pleasantly surprised when my turn came around.

Did not discover anything, but was interesting ...

***(670,439) some unidentified objects

MY

I saw some of the same things again.

New things

***(923,281) Key Ring (939:1027,283) extended object, possibly a dart

MY

***(496,425) ??? (822,467) the bust of someone

MY

forgot the asterisks last time!

***objects: coordinates (x,y)

***(894,314) cup (335,308) Harmonica (274,307) Hair book (93,326) Abe Lincoln article (258,502) unknown article ???

Regards,

Michael Yurko

Quite a productive little session...but like all good things, over too soon! Just as I was getting to a juicy bit too!

objects

(894,314) cup (335,308) Harminica (274,307) Hair Book (104,322) Abraham Lincoln paper

Reminds me of scanning events, but objects here are much more familiar. Regards, Michael Yurko

***SOME KIND OF CUP OR CONTAINER WITH WATER AND DIRT IN IT.

***it's been fun

*** me again hard to tell exactly what the scale of things is againts the lower right wall i was looking at a key ring perhaps. couldn't tel if it was attached to the cylindrical object next to it.

*** Hmmm...

it was a thrill a minute

. . . espressing continued interest . . .

*** Found a book on "Hair Thickening Growing Stronger and Healthier" x=271 y=305

***My team of experts, and I, found a ripped page from the Starship Enterprise Catalog of battery supplies. We would like to see more gratuitous sax and violins. Thanks.

** Looks like I found a smithsonian magazine.. try a CU-See me connections that gives real-time video too...that would be cool

This is way cool, I want one for Christmas.

OK cute idea. But no time to try work out what it all was.

WE FOUND A SEAHORSE NEAR 515X555.

Although I did not find anything, it was fund to play with it. Thanks. Please forward this message to Ken. Yang

***Globe of the world *** can of some sort ***excellent data collection method, very innovative ***all associated with the project are to be congratulated

*** A pen, many notes on rocks (turquoise for jewelry, obisidian for blades) and a pipe found in the region (700-800, 525-400)

I found some cool rocks.

lost my time

I did not discover any new objects. However, this was a very interesting exercise. Realtime video display would be a welcomed addition. Thanks for the diversion.

This thing is kinda cool. The only problem is the speed, but that is to be expected.

***found a paper showing "agate" with attached definition. ***in initial surface scan saw a plastic stingray and a socket head. This is great toy.

Looked like an inverted metal scoop or something. Alas! my efforts added more debries on the object.

I see a sign or piece of paper with the words: ...as a stack of steel... ...ven aggressive approa... No clue to what it means.

whoa! this is like, pretty cool! huh huh huh

Great idea.... and excellent interface. I enjoyed it. It goes on my hotlist ***found a plaster bust of a man's head and shoulder ***Page with writing..forget what it said ***part of what seemed like a coke can.. or was it pepsi :-)

***a cork? ***a keychain?

Fun yet educational!

none this time

***seems to be a globe (?) at 527x480..

***I found something that looked like a Xmas tree ornament.

***I found a cork. ***I found a shiny metal object that looked like a walnut opener

***

*** hmmm...I think I "discovered" some kind of wire... This is a very interesting application of Internet. I'll pass the information about this application to my colleagues.

***We found Turquoise which was the principal rock used in jewelery and ***Pyrite or fools gold next to something that looked like a belt.

I think I broke it

what the fuck?

couldn't get pictures because of some error, I hope it wasn't with you

***Card with word "OBSIDIAN" X:749,Y:459 ***Card saying that "...turquoise was used in jewelry..." ***Card talking about "...fools..." X:709,Y:530

*** found something at about 93,374 and started to uncover it. Don't know what it is, but there's some writing on it towards the "lower" edge.

Thank you for a wonderful time. If you understand Swedish please read my homepage.

Cool thing!

Fun . . . fun . . .

*** need to wind the watch!

*** Cleared more of the edge of a "Free Gift" something. Needs further excavation to reveal the entire object.

*** great experience! althought this (among other "multi-media" on the WEB) is certainly going to encourage me to get a 28.8K modem for the dial-in SLIP connection at home . . .

*** paper about

*** Strange piece of paper

Great experience! ***I recognized a paper with a formula from statistical physics?? I will be back! Jonatan Kutchinsky Graduate student in Physics Copenhagen University Denmark

*** There is a first time for everything, also for controlling the robotic arm. The first time you're most off the time busy with finding out how al the things work. ***

Hi, Nice idea! But I didn't recover anything yet. Perhaps next time. Bye Mike

we really had a lot of fun with this :) thanks

Pretty cute, I must say. Definitely an exciting "proof of concept." Would be nice if we could get a bigger picture--like separate 'overview' camera? Admittedly would ruin the mystery. And how about color? Keep it up, Ralph .

just exploring . . .

*** best guess is that object is an harmonica . . .

*** still trying to get closer look at object near currunt coordinates ...

***Found some type of object - no analysis as yet

Very interesting, although on this first exposure to the robot, I have discovered no discernable objects

***some text, reading "Growing and ncikle..." unreadable after that ***a small globe? Odd designs I hasd a difficult time putting all of the different locatiions I tried to search at together. Tehre should be an option for and even wider view than is currently available. A very neat idea,. I hope it doesn't become overrun now that you've been published in Wired.

I would like the technical on this project. Could be of use to me in a project to control a 1000 ton portable crusher digesting 240 tons of earth at a time. Want to control from 2 miles away. I monitor over 400 points at this time and would like to control two units with one operator. This has some possible applications. Just hooked up 10mbit ethernet today (Took out the old 19200 line). Will down load the "Further Info" but is there more.

*** i found a pice of paper and a magnifying glass

***I found a big clock. It was really hard to see what it was when the light shined upon it, but I blew away some of the dust and the next time I came up to look I could tell it was a big clock about a foot in diameter with a shiny clear plastic face on the front. Pretty darn cool that I can controll a robot in california from the university of Georgia.... :-}

***Okok, what's with the coffee cup? ***I want my free gift from the Smithsonian! Pretty cool...

*** A Free Gift Offer from Smithsonian

Not bad at all. I think I'll come back again.

Captains Log, Stardat 322745 Well, another day hard at work at the Mercury Site. Little progress made today. The crew's morale is getting low, and I fell the word mutiny hanging limp in the air. We cannot seem to be able to find anything other than that damn WIRE piece of paper, and I can tell that everyone is excited about going hom for Thanksgiving. I only hope that we can find that quantum singularity before it's too late!

Thanks for the test drive!

*** Didn`t know that I was lying there in the sand... nice thing, but (like someone before did note): GET A COLOUR CAMERA! have a nice desert r.

Pretty neat, I just wish for a little higher pressure air blast, those big boulders are hard to move! (:>) ***I think I found a key, but it might have been a nickle.

Pretty cool. Energy runs out pretty quickly though. I found what seems like a textbook page about rock descriptions.

No comments yet. Nothing discovered. An excellent job here though! I'll experiment with this more. cheers! Jeff Nelson

Cool! You should have something like a pictures covered by the rocks so we can blastem off and see them hehehe

No new objects discovered. Pretty much a recon mission. This is pretty much most engineers "wet dream." An "RC" (radio controlled) robot with an infinite range. However, could you add a flame thrower or jack hammer to the options of tools?

Tis a shame that the 'You are Currently Operating the Machine' (or whatever) message appears at the top of the info screen - Means only half the clickable area is on screen at start. Thanks anyway

saw a key and some box and maybe a bag?

YEAH! Thats the Hit in WWW! What about controlling a group of earth orbit satellites interactively by a group of users? This may be used instaed of these typical "stupid" InterNet-MultiUser-Games, which are played by the net-surfers so far... Let's go beyond the borders of the VR-Space - and ultimately attack the RR-Space(*)! The Remote Student --- (*)Real-Reality-Space

Very nice interface but the air blasts don't seem to have much affect that I was able to notice.

Great -- operating a robot on the other side of the Atlantic!!

I only discovered an 'E'. I'm sorry, but I have nothing to say about an 'E'.

Thanks so much for letting me enjoy this Internet treat.

nifty.

cool. get a color camera. *** a turquoise rock sample

Amazing! Operating a robot at least 1000 miles away and seeing it via video! Thanks. Jerry Eisner

I found something that looks like an eye!! I don't know if this is correct Andres

*** I found a bust of a guy. Tried to poof off the gravel, but couldn't really determine if I had. Also found some sort of black rounded off triangle thing. Anyway it was fun!

*** Found something that looked like a crab; seemed to scuttle towards a cylindrical object to the left of the observation area. Any ideas what it is? (What is a crab doing in the desert?) Great system you have here -- will definitely be returning for a further look! Congratulations! Cheers, Paul

*** This looks like a key chain.

*** Found a box of Diamond matches, a piece of paper beginning AGATE . . another piece of paper was nearby but I ran out of time

Thanks for this great adventure in the WWW ! I think that the idea behind that little robot - and communication technic will have many further servers following tis interactiv concept. Bye

***Paper actually says "The Last Best Hope on Earth... ***Promise Of America....cludes some 100....

***Object: Paper says "The Last Best Magor..Promise of ***America..cludes some 100

Still looking. ***Found something with words on it, will have to go **back and see what it says.

This is totally cool, seen something but will have to go back and look later. Excellant idea people! ***Object with black stripes or some color.

*** Can't say what I saw.

pretty neat!

*** The block turned out to be a plastic box with two pictures of eyes on one side...

*** Found a corner of what looks like a childs alphabet block at x=128, y=344

Went prospecting... came up with bubkiss... Maybe next time?

This is so cool. I am impressed. Thank You. Alex

Great Page!

QUARTZ: another product .... sparks for sta ..... fires. What is this near the middle?

This is great!

At coordinates x600 y509 there is what appears to be the edge of a metallic disk or possibly a lens, again of unknown origin.

This was great. Truely interactive internet. I think that this really illustrates the complexity of robotic exploration. I did find a *** Box that said Quartz on it, and to the SW of that what appeared to be a metallic object of undetermined nature ***. To Boldly go where no Robot has gone before .....

Did'nt find anything, but it was fun.

Fascinating. I wish I had the ability to download the images to do some enhancement. It might also be useful to have a 'map' of the last 5 or six images (a page of small previous images). A very worthy project, including the story for the setup. Part of the enjoyment is knowing that there is a real device on the other end. The only more exciting concept I could think of is driving a robot around an office with during business hours. Maybe for the next project... chris hayward

*** found note regarding turquoise use in jewelry *** found paper in left corner with printed words, not enough time to read it all Nicely done! Image quite clear, and response time not too bad at 8:45AM Central time. Wouldn't want to do it via modem, though! :-)

*** It is a very amazing game indeed. I can operate a robot oversea through Internet. I have never dreamed of that. However, I don't know what should I pick up by the robot arm. Furthermore, the camera view is too small so it is very difficult to locate the object.

Your robot blows! Thanks a lot...really fun. (well, it's late) I hope you weren't watching. Do you ever stick your face under the camera? That would be scary.

Yikes, this is sure slow at 14.4K baud. :-) (even with Compressed SLIP running...) ---Mark

Thanks for the fun. I brought my kids (11 and 13 years) and we spent a bit more than an hour exploring the robot's space. Maybe I can bring some kids from the local school and do it again. My son suggests that you implement an option to enter coordinates to make it easier to return to places previously visited, or that look interesting in the log. Thanks again.

This is really neat. Great job! This is a good example of what the Internet is good for. Thanks for your work. Darin Arrick darrick@unicomp.net

*** A cup at 887, 357, with a piece of paper on edge inside. How can this interface uncover the paper and turn it up so it can be read? A challenge for someone.

Wow! That's pretty cool.

*** At 264, 394 we found (another?) Free Gift from the Smithsonian coupon. Did you cover some things back up?

Hello from Maine! Thanks a lot, it was fun. Good job... haven't seen anything like it before!

*** there is lots of stuff around 560,390. We have noticed several printed references to minerals and jewelry. Is this an old jewelry shop?

WAY COOL!

In the valley of the blind the one eyed dog is king.

OK

***Found a strange disk This is a real cool URL

This is awesome!!! I'm sure your research will help... ***I found a small box of matches and uncovered it.

***Thanks for the Operating Time. It is painfully obvious that I need a faster Modem. We did see part of a stop watch (for logging operator time??)and a note about turquoise and it's use in jewelry. Cheers from the UK!

pretty cool fun you've got here. Enjoyed moving it around.

Hello from Sweden(way up North), cold and stuff... This was a funny idea though, by the way check out my homepage, english.

Hello from Sweden(way up North)... Cold and stuff...

This was an exciting, bizarre, communal experience. I found that I needed to watch what the previous operators were doing so that I could build on their work. It took some practise to interpret the images and determine what areas of the search field would yield the best results. It's just very weird to think that I was controlling this device thousands of miles away from me, somewhere out in an irradiated desert, while I was sitting in my office in Albany. I hope it's not a portent of the way we'll have to interact with our environment in the future! It's scarry enough that there's a place on earth right now that's too lethal for humans.

Seems cool. Didn't think I had used 5 min though :) ***There seemed to be a piece of paper almost totally uncovered. Also, what looked like a chess piece Queen seemed to be lying there (that was what I was working at) Will probably connect and try again some time. Thanks, Laurent http://www.cs.wvu.edu/~delfosse

This has been my best experiance to date on the web. I found a free gift form the Smithsonian. I think it was a magazine. Lots of fun!

***I found a piece of paper; I think it said "Obsidian."

A most impressive experience. I actually moved equipment over the internet. Ahh, if only I could help my friend move using the internet instead of muscles... I look forward to trying it again. In fact, I'm giving a demo of the internet to a Mac Club and will probably use this site as an example of remote control robotics. Thanks. !

We found a piece of paper but did not have time to examine what it said. Would it be possible to make operator time "dynamic" so that time expires only when someone else is waiting.

Great!

*** HI THERE. I DISCOVERED A WATCH. IT WAS ABOUT HALF PAST FOUR. COOL PROJECT BY THE WAY.

*** Found a subscription card for WIRED. Proof that this *** magazine has extended to unknown reaches of the *** known universe..... Aloha

*** I think I saw i jug

Fantastic! Ashame the one closer to home (UWA) isn't working!

I had a great time playing robot operator. Thanks! Didn't find anything though -- guess I'll have to be patient and wait till my next visit.

Using this tool on a SLIP line at 57.6KBaud doesn't give you a lot of exploration time. -gk

I think I saw an alien. Quick call Pete Wilson so we can deport it.

Really cool!

Seems like fun but too slow over my slip link. thanks!

That was cool. *** I saw a watch and a piece of paper

I like to control things, so I liked Mercury. Now, instead of a little puff of air, how about a laser. Thanks, Joe

Interesting... Now only if it was something more like the Space Shuttle (HA HA).. Beretta ------>

It's too short I did only one movement so you must not go far.....

Weee! We'll have to do something similar with our SCARAs and PUMAs. All I found was an Octopus looking thing, but hey, it was fun looking...

More bandwidth! This is really cool... we were thinking that here we were operating a robot 2000 miles away and griping because we couldn't multitask. older whiskey, faster horses, usw. Thanks!

Hey, that was fun! I guess, watching the robot make its funny movements while some people try to operate what must be one of the most expensive remote control systems in the world (hey, the whole