[Geek 2.0]

Perhaps we should try a new goal, maybe for off-season events. I doubt we will be able to do this, but I would love to see someone give it a shot.

What if the challenge were not a fully autonomous bot, but rather a MOSTLY autonomous bot? lineskier put forth a good idea, by telling the robot to "FIND TUBE" and "CAPTURE TUBE", etc. Obviously, if it misinterprets, the error will just rack up and there will be problems on problems.

To avoid this, give the driver two buttons: "Success" and "Failure/Retry". If the robot succeeds in the command it's given, you tell it "Success". If it fails, you tell it to retry.

To be really impressive, have it learn from failure. Yeah, that sounds difficult, but it's possible, and not as complex as you might think. If it grabs the wrong color, have it tweak it's color detection settings. If it went the wrong way, tweak the heading.

So, what do you think? Anyone willing to take up the challenge? (Like I said earlier, unfortunately our team won't be able to do this yet, but maybe in the future).