Be a Robot

1. Meredith Maltese, Carolyn Robinson, Lauren Fath, Jenna Vanliere, Diemecha Hilliard
2. The hardest part of building the objects was understanding the directions from the head and being able to translate them to create the object from the blocks.
3. The head was the most fun because we got to boss everyone around and control what was going on. It was also fun because it was challenging, and we really had to think about how to describe the object so that the hands would create the right object. But Carolyn thought the hands were the most fun because she did not have to see and she got to have fun with blocks and feel like a little kid again.
4. While all of the parts are essential, the head is the most important because it is the brains and has to be able to describe the object accurately and specificly so that the hands create the object correctly.
5. Our robot was similar to robots used in the world today because it had the separate parts: the eyes, the mechanical parts that do the work, and the part that does the thinking. Us talking to each other was equivalent to robots sending electrical signals and communicating that way. Our robot was not similar to robots on TV because they are so much more complex and more human-like. For example, Data looks and acts almost like a human, whereas our robot just did processing.