Ibot Featured in Discovery Star Wars Special

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by opnickc

And from this footage of Dean Kamen, we know that the show's producers knew about FIRST, and simply chose to leave it out. Something about that is unsettleing to me.

In all honesty, I think it's amazing how much publicity FIRST does get as it is. I mean, 99% of the time when you hear Dean Kamen's name, you quickly hear something about FIRST. I'm actually surprised we see it so incredibly much. I don't think it really upsets me that they left FIRST out... some producers just don't know enough about it to want to include it. Their main focus was on the technology of iBot, and just because Dean Kamen is behind the iBot, it may not have been the appropriate program for FIRST to be brought up in.

Point is, I think we should be quite thankful for how much publicity networks to tend to give us, and the way this footage was focused on the iBot technology, I can completly understand why FIRST wasn't mentioned. Just another perspective to throw out there.