By Andrew Webb, BBC
The moment you walk into San Diego’s High Tech High you realise this is a school unlike most others. Teenagers are writing video games, filming sketches, using heavy duty power tools to build a boat – and then there are the robots. In pride of place is Daisy May, a waist-high machine that scuttles around, scooping balls off the ground and projecting them into a bin. “The way she skids replicates the way she would move in the semi-weightless conditions on the moon,” said one of her designers and senior year student, RJ Sheperd.
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