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Re: robotica on TLC
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:47:28 GMT
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Wow, some of you get really defensive about this thing,
Here is the reason why I started this thread.
For every show they show on TV there will be someone who loves it and
someone who wouldn't watch it even if you paid him/her to watch it.
My intention was not to find out who is on what side.
The point is that "they" call those remote controlled vehicles "robots"
I was 1992 champion in paved oval racing (remote controlled battery powered
cars) of Fort Lauderdale, FL (big city - lots of competitors) and never
heard anyone using the word "robot" (maybe we should have called it "the
race of the robots" :>)
It comes down to one simple question: What's the difference between a remote
controlled vehicle and a robot?
Maybe RC-BOTICA would have been a more appropriate name for the show. Maybe
it was a typo and the first "C" was mistakenly replaced by an "O"
You certainly didn't need a Ph.D. to figure out how purely these RC vehicles
where constructed for the task (more ground clearance anyone? better turn
ratio?)
And the people on the control looked like my neighbors 6 year old son who
just started "racing" his RC car up and down the street and gets confused
about left and right depending in what direction the car goes (toward him or
away from him) and smashes into walls (they smashed more into walls then
into each other).
These are my 2 cents on this show, that I certainly would never watch again.
Now to the real robots, I see that most are replying that smashing each
other (eliminating) is very hard if not impossible at this time.
Why must there be any smashing/killing be involved?
<note>
you could have won that robotica competition without touching your opponent
once in any of the individual competitions (in most you couldn't even touch
your opponent).
</note>
There are a lot of other tasks a robot could accomplish in competing with
another robot, without smashing into each other (ever heard of
brickbots.com?)
If the money of a producer is behind something like this, I'm sure people
could come up with great ideas that are fun to watch (even when a lego robot
is used)
Oh and one more thing
Please stay within the subject, you can always start your own thread called
"Junk Yard Wars" or what ever other show you might like (I had to say that
;>)
--
David
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| Scientific American Frontiers on PBS ran a show, NATURAL BORN ROBOTS, last year. It was rebroadcast last night here in the Tampa Area. The show ended with a segment called 'Go Team' which covered Robocup 99 held in Stockholm. Teams from around the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: robotica on TLC
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| (...) I didn't realize that expressing an opinion was being defensive. Personally I enjoy the conversation much more if the participants are at least a bit passionate about the subject. I realize this is contrary to U.S. culture with it's emphasis (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| After seeing all the commercials for the past couple of weeks, I was looking forward to this show on TLC called "Robotica". What a disappointment. Where were the robots? They kept talking about robots the whole time. Maybe I'm missing something (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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