Human Interaction.

[wilsonbiggs]

Our team isn't, although that doesn't seem like a terrible idea. Especially if you can get your school's Ultimate team to help out...

[Physicguy]

Originally Posted by wilsonbiggs

Our team isn't, although that doesn't seem like a terrible idea. Especially if you can get your school's Ultimate team to help out...

I wish that we had a Ultimate frisbee team... We are not implementing the human interaction as much this year, maybe someone who feeds disks to our robot.

[Jeffy]

We will have skilled human interaction. The speed at which we are hoping the human player to feed through the slot is going to take a bit of practice.

[matthewdenny]

Quite honestly I'm not a fan of the human interaction factor of the games. It doesn't inspire knowledge of science or technology, it's not part of building a robot, it has noting to do with teamwork or cooperation. Last year the chances of a full court basketball shot were remote but this year I think some matches are going to be decided because one team has an Ultimate player with a good arm and the other doesn't. I think that's unfortunate. It does add some excitement, but isn't robots competing exciting already?

[matthewdenny]

This isn't to say we aren;t going to have someone practice, because to not do so would be silly.

[2348humanplayer]

Perhaps. I'm the coach for our team, and we plan to have our robot score in the high in auto, do some shooting, then climb all the way up to score 30 in around the last 30-45 seconds, and dump some player discs in the top goal. Throwing discs from human players could work for a few points, plus it'll look hilarious