Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You wait until the A33 circuit boards are ready and hope for the
best.
You decide to wait and see if the old A33 circuit boards are fixable. If
need be, you and some of your team members can try and fix them.
If the circuit boards can be fixed in time, you'll save your company or
the customer a lot of money. However, if they're not fixed in time, you and
your team may be working a lot of overtime to finish the robot on schedule.
The worst-case scenario is that you won't be able to complete the robots in
time, and you may still have to order the more expensive circuit boards.
Neither situation is ideal. But you have to decide on what you think is
the best solution.
"My gut inclination as a robotics researcher is, you try to do what you
can with what you have, but you always have to think safety first," says robotics
engineer Kjerstin Williams. "If this is a system that would be interacting
with humans and... your system doesn't have a graceful way to shut down in
case of failure, then no-way-Jose."
The best thing you can do is weigh the pros and cons, do your
research and do what you think is best.