• Question: Have you traveled anywhere far to win awards?

    Asked by stannes8 to Conor on 10 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Conor McGinn

      Conor McGinn answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      No, unfortunately not. Maybe someday I will though…

      In general I try not to value awards too much. Sure its nice to get recognized for the work you do, but I also think its important that you don’t do work just in order to get recognised. Engineers have a big responsibility to do what is right, and sometimes as engineers what is right may not be popular. For example, I will not work on a military project as I don’t believe that robots should be used for violence. In somewhere like the US, this would probably be a really unpopular stance.

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