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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
I would have loved to see some footage from an actual FIRST event. I think it's very easy for viewers to go "oh yea robots" and just shrug it off, but if they had shown video of what FIRST is actually like and provided the URL for the FIRST website, they would have gotten a bunch of extra publicity. None of Colbert's guests usually have video though, so maybe they weren't willing to let Dean show any.
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Having him ride around in the iBot was better than any FIRST video. Colbert couldn't hide how cool it is. In my opinion, that invention represents FIRST more than the FRC entries. The robots are a tool to motivate High School kids to build stuff like that.