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Apparatus constructed such that it may control various other equipment for the performance of various work tasks, even other equipment yet to be designed for work tasks yet to be designed. The improvement in the apparatus feature a call-back control procedure which is activatable from device intelli

Apparatus constructed such that it may control various other equipment for the performance of various work tasks, even other equipment yet to be designed for work tasks yet to be designed. The improvement in the apparatus feature a call-back control procedure which is activatable from device intelligence to ensure that a specific robotic device can be “called-back”, i.e. reactivated, to perform some specific action without the necessity of there being a code entry in the sequence intelligence of the central computer system enabling the specific action. The apparatus comprises a central computer control means comprising (1) a dictionary storage means for tagging and storing command-specific parameters for a specific work tasks and that specific robot module to which each of the parameters belongs and (2) sequencing means to schedule said work-tasks for a plurality of said modules. The module also can be activated for the task without use of the sequencing means, e.g. by having the module request one of its own dictionary entries.

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In a control system for operating a number of robot modules and comprising a language-generating and storing means, said language generating means comprising means to receive command-specific operating parameters, from a robot module, and means to transfer said operating parameters, said known robot

In a control system for operating a number of robot modules and comprising a language-generating and storing means, said language generating means comprising means to receive command-specific operating parameters, from a robot module, and means to transfer said operating parameters, said known robot module identification, and a selected name for said parameters into a dictionary storage means and sequence intelligence program means to activate such operating parameters by using said selected name as a command signal to transfer said parameters to said module, the improvement wherein said system comprises a call-timer program means which responds to signals received from device intelligence contained in at least one said module of a said robotic device by commanding performance of a task, by said device, through said device intelligence and without use of said sequence intelligence program means.