I watched it on Sunday and it was great!
The full story or text is here...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...eaturedPost-PE
Very nice opening statement:
"The crowds, cheerleaders and mascots are not here for a football game or a basketball tournament.
This is a robotics competition called
"FIRST," in which 10,000 kids from across the world descend on Atlanta and turn the Georgia Dome into a high-tech Super Bowl.
So (and this seems like an obvious question), what exactly is a robot?
Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway personal transportation device and founder of FIRST, replied, "Not only is 'What is a robot?' not an obvious question, I think it doesn't have an answer any more than 'What is a computer?' ....."
(read more at the above link)
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