What can a robot do to sink or swim that you and I cannot? At CNN.Com Technology a sink-or-swim robot race was part of a young leaders competition. College students built robots to perform a series of tasks without human intervention in a 38-foot deep research pool for a robotic sink-or-swim contest.
Robots had to swim through a gate, find the dock with a flashing light box, locate and tag a cracked pipeline, then hone in on an acoustic beacon to resurface in a designated recovery zone. 
Competition tends to get far better results when it comes to creations that win in business. The human brain is egged on by the very act of the race. The key is to give enough freedom so that the best minds can bring innovation to the table and enough guidelines so that people can use their multiple intelligences to bring new creations alive. It seems this contest did both…. How could your workplace add more incentive for creative thinking for mind-bending profitability?
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