19-01-2012, 21:36
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VEX Robotics Engineer
AKA: Arthur Dutra IV; NERD #18
 FRC #0148 (Robowranglers) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Greenville, TX
Posts: 3,078
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Re: THE MOST ANTICIPATED ANSWER THIS SEASON!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by JChavis
My thoughts on the GDC making that decision were PRETTY ambivalent....
My fun part of my brain said:
"YESS, humans can SCORE, more points for US!!!!"
My moral part of my brain said:
"Wouldn't this be degrading the amazing spirit and intention of FIRST, where people could build ROBOTS to do people's work, thus learning a technology and engineering mentality students can use in the future to assist the human race?"
I know it is very exciting to win, but what would teams learn if people in the future would have to create robots that would require human assistance?
Oh, wait, I might have just made another point there....  |
This Q&A answer wasn't some magical surprise, it was explicitly allowed under rule G32 since Kickoff.
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