Most mobile robots do this using a technique called SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping), whereby they build up a map of their unknown environment, using various sensors, whilst keeping track of their current position at the same time.

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Reluctance across the majority of distributors and end-market customers to build inventories through an unknown macro environment.

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It is probable that it has an animal source, but whether it spreads from contaminated food or something else in the environment is unknown.

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They go further and point to, just as one example of their argument, the way in which population rise could lead to a phase change, a chaotic and of unknown outcome, rapid and irreversible change in our environment.

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Granted, this is far from a perfect solution, but given the prevailing interest rate environment, it is less risky than trying to predict unknown outcomes.

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