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assassin



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What does/can robot combat offer to the general community?

This is a question I have for anyone. I'm sure the guys & girls that have been doing this for a while would have ideas and good responses.

Do you see uses for ideas we may develop?

Do you think skills learnt can be used as motivation to follow certain career paths for young people?


I'm looking for answers myself, hence the reason for my question. Cheers, and remember to always try and have fun while competing.
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Post Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:45 am 
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The robots themselves do not supply any technological innovation, but it is a very good mix of technics, electronics, hydraulics, pnumatics etc.

This gives roboteers a very good allround knowledge of various subjects. That can help them in later carreeers (or not as in my case).

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I've learnt countless skills such as designing, using cad programs and working with metal and plastics from my hobby making robots which will probably help me get into a job I'm interested in once I leave school. Although robots themselves might not be so much on the innovative edge the sport has lead to a variety of technologies being developed, which may be useful in other areas. Such as melty brain systems, team whyachi's kinetic energy flipper, pushing the bounderies on armour/battery technologies and others. Smile Not to mention I have an absolute blast competing and building, and it's a damn sight more innovative than racing rc cars.
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I think the main benifit is those lovely "non-technical" (HR has these words drummed into my head) skills that you need to build a sucessful bot. Things like planning, cost estimation, meeting deadlines, teamwork, creative thinking, etc.

Having all skills like materials knowledge, structural, mech, elec engineering and cadding are great, but it's quite unlikely to find a job which requires all of them put together. Unless you move into a prototyping lab/inventor type role, you will need to specialise. (I just remembered that I have met a few people with a Phisical Engineering degree which encompasses a bit of everything. Most of the people I know with this degree are working at the Lions Eye Institute as interns)

*Personal Rant*
Being one of those techinical types is great, but practical knowledge is invaluable. The inherited teachings of repair jobs has fallen away in our society.

i.e. We have a yearly local electrathon, in which you build a go-cart and see how many laps you can do in an hour. Most people use bike parts & tyres. I think that I was the only person in our team of four (except out lecturer, who was otherwise occupied), who knew how to repair a puncture. And I knew of other teams where the kids had no idea, relying on their teachers incase of a tire problem. Shocked

We need to get the future of our society away from computers and back into the real world, before the only way to solve a problem is to call someone on your mobile phone and pay them with your credit card, which you can't pay off since you rely on paying everyone else to fix things. Confused

We need to encourage people to do less buying and more building. We need more of those hand crafted bots that are made out of spare parts to get people saying "I never thaught of using it that way, I could do that but make it better by ..." Which should get people out of our disposable, consumorism based society Twisted Evil , which is currently on the road to ruin.

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