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Re: Are they really robots?

In the WPI Robotics Engineering Department, the general (read: boiled down) definition of the robot is a machine that can sense the world, make "decisions", and act upon the world.

IMHO FIRST robots are true robots in that sense during the :15 of autonomous. However, many robots continue to use sensors throughout teleoperated. So, while they're not entirely autonomous, they're still performing autonomous tasks throughout the entire match and are thus robots.
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