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Alexandra, Melonie, Jack, Megan, and Ms. Cacal:  I like that you
drew your design. A big part of engineering is figuring out how
you are gong to build your robot, and the first step to building
anything is drawing it. One thing you did that none of the other
Classes did was actually put measurements on your drawing. You
might consider drawing a version that is "to scale." Ms. Calcal
can explain what that  The robot takes care of many of the needs
of the astronauts. Using Naturally Speaking is a great idea,
since it would be awfully hard to use a keyboard while the robot
is moving around. How would the robot communicate with the
astronauts? Also, how will the robot move around? I didn't see
any "locomotors" (things that let the robot move) on your  The
problems with the speech interface that you pointed out are very
good. We have an entire research team hear who works on how to
make a r