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Nothing show Lou Grant triggered my wish to special, I thought, because report on whatever happens in the there are more companies world for a newspaper or a radio doing that, but this time my station, but the series about a grumpy attention was drawn to a editor at the fi ctional newspaper Los special element as the robot Angeles Tribune certainly fuelled my in question turned out to be ambition. I must have been around able to put another robot to Durk Haarsma ten or eleven years old and probably work. This makes it possible, didn’t understand a thing of the show, but I felt that the rush of the for example, to send a UAV to Cees van Dijk newsroom, the variety in topics that need to be covered and the absolute sea with a glider on board that can be essential curiosity would fi t me like a glove. launched remotely. So far, my choice for a career in media, although not based in an LA Is that special? According to a robotic expert who was interviewed in a newsroom, has never disappointed me. I realize that it is quite special and Dutch radio programme, it is. Although we are perfectly capable of useful for youngsters to know what they want professionally, as it makes developing robots that can focus on one specifi c task, multifunctional choices of study and college easier. However, my experience is not half as robots hardly exist. For example, it is possible to make a programmable inspirational or adventurous as Dawn Wright’s. Now chief scientist with Esri, machine that delivers packages, but it is more diffi cult to have the she describes how she, as a little black girl growing up near the ocean on same device also collect the returns from the web shop, said the the Hawaiian Islands, was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure specialist interviewed. Island and especially by the treasure map, which played a central role in the book. I do not doubt the authoritative knowledge of the person I heard, but he had probably not yet looked at the developments taking place in the The fascination for this map shaped her choices for a career that already world of hydrography and oceanography. There are already several spans decades of mapping the seabed. It is also inspiring because Wright experiments with autonomous vessels that can be used for various never let go of her aspiration, even when at some points she was one of the tasks. Mayfl ower Autonomous Ship (MAS), an autonomous vessel that only women on an expedition, and often the only black woman. Supporting follows the course of the voyage of the ship that transported the her persistence were role models such as cartographers Tharp and Heezen, Pilgrims to the New World, will soon depart. In one of the previous which kept her going.