Comment by mandevil

If someone complained to us TAs during or after the lab that the simulators were incorrect, we were quite open that indeed they were, and that was not our doing, but we were okay with it because lying documentation was a part of the real world.

The professor had been doing the class with those robots for several years when I took the class the first time, but I don't know if he acquired that brand of robots because their simulator was broken or if that was just a happy accident that he took advantage of.

The lesson certainly has stuck with me- this was one lab in a class I took almost a quarter-century ago and I vividly remember both the frustration of not moving the robot and the frustration of everyone in the sections that I TA'd.