Talk:Robot competition
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==Robot==
Used to be a fairly focused article on a rather large topic, but lately wiki-entropy has taken over, and a vast amount of random and poorly worded sections have slipped in. Needs a thorough cleaning and tightening to the core of the topic, along with sources for the assertions made throughout. —LeFlyman 18:02, 2 February 2006 (UTC) Added to User:Kcordina/Desk RJFJR 19:36, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I've moved the robot competition material to a new page at Robot competition. That page needs a good cleanup, which I'll do once I'm finished here. Kcordina 10:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
The whole field of robots and robotics has undergoing rapid and signficant development and change. I expect this article will continue to morph for the next several years at least. In spite of being both a passionate and professional roboticist for 10 years, I have refrained from editing it too much, prefering to wait for things to calm down a bit. We can't even agree on what a robot is yet! Example: The Vita Craft RFID cooking system keeps appearing in the article, which in my humble opinion is in no way a robot. I suggest we have a discussion explicitly about the definition of "robot". pes 7/APR/06 |
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[edit] Work in progress
Please note - this page has been created as a direct copy of material that was in the robot page. It needs a good copyedit and wikify, which I'll do once I've finished with robot Kcordina 09:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Original research
At its finest. "Because the robot TV shows are popular, the army uses robots and there's a slug-eating robot in England, it's obvious we're all terrified of them rebelling against us." WHAT??? Please come up with a source, though I doubt there is one to be found. --132.69.234.73 11:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
== TV Shows ==
The popularity of the TV shows Robot Wars Robotica and Battlebots, of college level robot-sumo wrestling competitions, the success of "smart bombs" and UCAVs in armed conflicts, grass-eating "gastrobots" in Florida, and the creation of a slug-eating robot in England, suggest that the fear of an artificial life form doing harm, or competing with natural wild life, is not an illusion. The worldwide Green Parties in 2002 were asking for public input on extending their existing policies against such competition, as part of more general biosafety and biosecurity concerns. It appears that, like Aldous Huxley's concerns about human cloning, questions Karel Čapek raised eighty years earlier in science fiction have become real debates.
[edit] Categorization
I removed the "Other notable annual competitions" heading. It seems weird to make that distinction between the competitions. It seemed arbitrary to me.
However, if someone wanted to categorize the competitions according to school level or type of robot, i think that would help the page. ---- BAxelrod 14:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
