11 Oct
2013
11 Oct
'13
7:44 p.m.
On 10/11/2013 5:59 PM, Mark Tapley wrote:
All,
Two of my kids are competing in this years BEST robotics design
competition. Rules are here, FYI:
http://www.bestinc.org/b_game_rules.php
The competition is to build a robot which will assemble logic
element stand-ins into logic gates and CPU elements (not actual ones,
everything is sylized so that the robots can be made out of easily
available macroscopic materials). However, an important element of the
competition, on which the older child is working, is to write a
"business case" for such a robot - do market research, in essence, and
convince investors why such a device is useful.
Why not just "Use the brain of a rabbit".
But does this topic look out of focus ... Nano Machines have been doing
this for billions of years ... it is called * LIFE *.
Ben.