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Re: Are they really robots?
I remember being in 3rd grade and talking to my parents about the definition of a robot. What we came up with has agreed with just about everyone I've talked to about it:
A robot is a machine that is controlled through a programmable computer, that is capable of autonomous or pre-programmed behavior, but it can also be "tele-operated" (to borrow a FIRST term).
I would argue that FRC does build robots, even if they are not fully-autonomous, machine-learning, bajillion-integrated-sensor robots that require tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to build and years of development to fine-tune.
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