Robots vs. Humans

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

While you can build a human fairly quickly, it takes about 9 months to fully develop. So much for the six week build.

We should stop before it gets worse.

[FrankJ]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

We should stop before it gets worse.

Probably so. Mentors helping, coaching, advising in this kind of activity would be seen as a violation of First's YP policy.

[abigailthefox]

Depends on whether or not you consider height and weight restrictions. A small human tends to be proportionately more fragile than a small robot. Also, excepting 2015, most robots had fairly short heights as well. In order to find a <120 pound person to play most of the games, chances are that they would likely lose to a robot who has had all 120 pounds of their frame perfectly designed to fulfill game objectives (er, designed and cheesecaked), whereas a 120 pound human has a lot of "extra" that isn't too helpful in a competition. Also, no one seems to think about the fact that robots never get tired. Have you ever tried to outrun your robot? I have (thanks to the programmers not disabling it before it reached poor innocent me holding the tether :/). Humans (that are in decent shape) can out-sprint a robot in the short term, but 2.5 minutes of sprinting around to achieve game objective can get tiring, especially with this years 8 pound totes to carry around. You might not think your robot is exactly careening around and going 0-60 out of the human player station, but human legs would still probably give out before your CIM motors will. And in the long term, humans can't just get a new battery every match. Overall, humans could probably put up a good fight in a lot of the games due to good reflexes and spatial skills, but a well built robot with an experienced drive team would likely win at most games.