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Spare Parts, by Joshua Davis
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- So we decided to extend our tether to thirty-three meters.†
p. 5.8 *
- Despite its diminutive size, the bot still had to contend with a problem endemic to ROVs: its tether.†
p. 106.5
- Normally, the tether also supplies power to the robot.†
p. 106.6
- To further complicate matters, they would have to contend with the thick tether cable sprouting out the top.†
p. 111.5
- But the competition required agile movements through narrow passages; a thinner tether would be a key advantage.†
p. 111.7
- It packed a programmable processor able to handle ten million instructions per second and could communicate via a tether or radio.†
p. 127.1
- They attached the tether, connecting the monitors to the robot's electronics.†
p. 139.9
- The robot's tether was now threaded through the hoop.†
p. 141.7
- They turned the robot around and tried to go back through in order to pull the tether out.†
p. 141.8
- Lorenzo had already figured out how to operate all the sensors, and Luis was needed by the edge of the pool to manage the tether and lift the robot.†
p. 145.7
- After a few minutes of fruitless troubleshooting, the teams had to ignominiously haul their robots out of the water by the tether.†
p. 166.4
- Luis off-loaded Stinky onto the edge of the pool and handed the tether to Cristian, who connected it to the control system.†
p. 168.3
- Luis stood at the pool's edge, paying out the tether cable.†
p. 168.9
- The robot inched into the structure, trailing its tether.†
p. 172.4
- The tether began to grind against the structure, pulling them back.†
p. 172.4
- A few small prizes were handed out (Terrific Tether Management, Perfect Pickup Tool), and then Merrill moved on to the final awards: Design Elegance, Technical Report, and Overall Winner.†
p. 175.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(tether) to tie so as to limit the boundaries of movement; or the rope or other material used to do the tying
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)