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You're just being difficult with the judges, it's a small event, they don't have enough money to hire big lawyers to come up with a 1 ton rulebook that would co
by choonway 8y ago
You're just being difficult with the judges, it's a small event, they don't have enough money to hire big lawyers to come up with a 1 ton rulebook that would cover every eventuality.
Keep in the spirit of the competition and try not to cheese things too much and everybody would be much happier.
If you still can't understand, well, feel free to set up your own robotics competition and see how many people would sign up.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoSpirit? Supposed to spur innovation, but turned into a remote-control-car event by dry unimaginative robotics folk. Nobody was unhappy; folks were smiling. Just pedants on HN that have an issue far as I can see.
- choonway 8y agoThese sort of low level competitions aren't there to spur innovation - it's just to kindle some interest with kids or the general public. Once you realise that, just smile and move on and let them play fast and loose with words. If you really want to do innovation, there's DARPA - they've lots of problems that they need solving they can't do with today's robots. Or if you have something against the military, there's always something similar to the Amazon Picking Challenge.