Thames & Kosmos ROBOT FACTORY, Инструкция по эксплуатации

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Finally, Karlie, Ty, and Milton arrived at the
final room in the factory. A robot with large
arms was practicing hitting a punching bag.
“This is Boxer-Bot,” said Milton. “It is designed
to help test punching bags. It’s also used to
test the durability of mattresses and to knead
dough in pretzel factories. But, I was hoping
you could help me reprogram it to hand out
ice cream cones.”
Ty and Karlie both loved ice cream, so
they thought this was a great idea. They
updated the robot’s code and set up a
conveyor belt of ice cream cones for the robot
to pick up and hand out to people.
But on the first trial, the robot’s arms moved
much too fast, and it flung the ice cream cones
all over the place!
“Haha, oops!” said Ty. “We can fix that. We just
have to slow it down.”
“This is a good reminder that engineering is
all about trial and error — testing a design,
correcting problems, and redesigning,”
explained Karlie.