FRC Robots Aren't Real Robots?

[Jared Russell]

According to a 6 year old I once met at a demo, our FRC machine was not a robot because, "How can it be a robot if it doesn't have a face?"

[pwnageNick]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

According to a 6 year old I once met at a demo, our FRC machine was not a robot because, "How can it be a robot if it doesn't have a face?"

^This kid gets it.

[ratdude747]

Trying to explain FIRST and FRC to my boss led to this sort of misunderstanding/disagreement. To him (and in our industry), these are robots:







A lot of principles apply but to this day I wonder if using the word "robotics" in my resume was a stretch considering the industry and that my boss may have felt i was overselling myself a bit (not that it matters, he likes my work for the most part). The definition of a word is what the speakers of the language deem it to be, and in automotive manufacturing, FRC ain't the definition of robotics (not to say they don't think we're cool).