Grok Robots

The Japan Times has an interesting article profiling RT Corporation CEO Yukiko Nakagawa.

Another turning point for Nakagawa was her encounter in 1989 with Micromouse, a small maze-solving robot that moves autonomously and senses obstacles. Nakagawa says she fell in love with the palm-sized robot when she first saw one while studying systems engineering at Hosei University in Tokyo.

A lot of people put down a lot of the successful robots on the market as “dumb robots” but I think the above quote illustrates the value of exposing people to any and all types of robots as often as possible. You never know which one will kick-start someone’s brain into wanting to learn more about robots/science/math/etc.