Jalopnik got the controls to a robot tank, and as you might imagine his write-up tended towards the gushing. His post would be worthless without a movie so he was sure to include one!
Guess who got handed the manual remote control pendant for BAE Systems’ Black Knight fully autonomous tank? Yeh, I’m in as much shock as you are but can’t stop thinking “Holy shit, I drove a robot tank! ROBOT. TANK.”
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.
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Beware of the man of one book.
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