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Recycle Robot Run

Programming Specificity—Putting a design to work

Humans are able to read their environment using a combination of sensory information,
decisions, inferences, and memories, all of which allow us to create mental maps which are
largely qualitative (based on description, rather than measurement). However, robots can
only do exactly what you tell them to do—and can only do it correctly—if they are given
specific, quantitative (measurable) instructions. These instructions create robot behaviors:
the ways that robots act, that range from basic to complex, depending on how the robot is
built or programmed.

As expert direction followers, the more detailed your directions, the better the robot will be