a practical first [Archive]

mike pawlak

17-04-2002, 22:31

i just heard that first will ditch the game and move to practical robots that can be used in every day life next year.

purplehaze357

18-04-2002, 09:14

hmm...thats interesting

Define practical?

**of course i kno this is a rumor and of course the above statement is meant as a joke...because practical is arbitrary...thanks

David Kelly

18-04-2002, 10:00

i love the rumor mill!!!

jeremy562

18-04-2002, 15:23

You mean picking up 20 balls and grabbing a 186 pound goal isn't a practical, every-day task? What planet do you live on? :p

AdamT

20-04-2002, 22:34

In my town, they are working on getting a grant for a program inspired by first, but engineered for more vocational students. It would involve building a robot that would respond to GPS to cultivate fields and things of the such...it sounds cool to me...

FARMBOTS

Jeff Waegelin

23-04-2002, 17:07

oh boy! What you hear in the rumor mill....

PsychoPhil

23-04-2002, 18:13

Originally posted by mike pawlak
i just heard that first will ditch the game and move to practical robots that can be used in every day life next year.

Does that mean it gets all easier and FIRST goes down to a niveau where you only build a robot that mixes your milkshakes etc? That would be sooo boring!

AdamT

23-04-2002, 18:21

I want a robot to make me a milkshake......

PsychoPhil

23-04-2002, 19:38

Originally posted by AdamT
I want a robot to make me a milkshake......

Sorry, but since I'm leaving for the nats tomorrow, it's too late now to get all the stuff we would need, but remind me next year a week before the nats and we'll build one ant the competition site, i promise...