Thread: Are FIRST robots actually robots?
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Are FIRST robots actually robots?
The other day I had a conversation with some people after giving a demonstration of our robot, and they said that if someone drove it, it wasn't a robot. They felt that the only difference between our robot and an RC car was that ours costs a lot more, and if our "robot" was a robot, then why not your car or even a microwave. Your car does more without you knowing than most FIRST robots, and all you need to do for a microwave is press start.

My questions are:

Does the 10s autonomous mode make it a robot?

Does the fact that its for a competition make it a robot?

Or, are we just making expensive RC cars?

If none of these are true what do we spend 6 weeks doing?


I was curious what other people thought of this.
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