I couldn't help but think about the environment that the robot would be operating in. The objective from the post stated it was to create a robot that would help clear disaster recovery areas. Suppose one of those areas became radioactive. It wasn't too long ago that the Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred. I'm not 100% on how high the radiation levels were at the time of the disaster, but wouldn't it stand to reason that a robot operating solely off of WiFi commands would have difficulty operating there? Pushing the entire competition into a wireless only mandate seems to do it a disservice.
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I couldn't help but think about the environment that the robot would be operating in. The objective from the post stated it was to create a robot that would help clear disaster recovery areas. Suppose one of those areas became radioactive. It wasn't too long ago that the Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred. I'm not 100% on how high the radiation levels were at the time of the disaster, but wouldn't it stand to reason that a robot operating solely off of WiFi commands would have difficulty operating there? Pushing the entire competition into a wireless only mandate seems to do it a disservice.