^ Yeah, what Jared said. It seems pretty interesting to me that wherever you visit or whomever you speak with in the vastly diverse world of the "robotics industry" you find very intelligent, invested people who tend to call their own gizmos "robots" and other people's robots "gizmos." (please go find George Carlin's bit about "stuff" on the internet if you don't know what I mean
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I remember being in a similar, and equally amusing, conversation about what "music" is when Rap was becoming more prevalent in the mainstream about 18 years ago.
It would seem to me the conversation here is more about preconceived notions and the widely held misconception that anyone, with their limited viewpoint, no matter how awesome he/she is, can fully define a rapidly evolving "industry" such as this one.
....and if this is REALLY, "...being harmful and preying on the ignorance of the average high school student," someone please explain Tina Haskins' success story (and the growing number of so many FIRST alumni who are doing incredible things in the industry today) to me.