People watching birds in flight

The ancient Greeks telling about people who try to fly like birds

Leonardo da Vinci inventing a pair of mechanical wings in the 1400s

People being interested in flying like birds

presenting facts about how SmartBird works and explaining why it is a useful invention

comparing SmartBird with other inventions and showing how technology has advanced

describing the reason Festo invented SmartBird and the effects the invention has had on the company

relating the sequence of events that occurred to create SmartBird

Technology is often too inefficient to be practical.

Nature can inspire human innovation.

The best machines have been designed to work by remote control.

Innovations are usually based on the ideas of inventors who lived long ago.

athletic competitions are challenging for any participant

Mr. Evolta was a difficult robot for Takahashi to design

people can be extremely inventive

Mr. Evolta is capable of amazing accomplishments

environments

events

obstacles

robots

found a creative way to promote its batteries

is the most successful company in Japan

focuses most of its efforts on creating robots

is primarily concerned with setting world records

It normally takes less than 13 hours for a human to complete the competition.

Mr. Evolta is only about one-tenth the height of the average human.

Each race in the event was held in Hawaii.

Mr. Evolta needed more time to finish the competition than a human would.

cause the reader to reflect upon personal accomplishments

build the reader’s interest by presenting an improbable situation

present the most important information about the topic first

explain various reasons for writing about the topic

illustrating how difficult each race was to complete

proving that the robot successfully finished all the races

helping the reader understand the length of each race in the triathlon

showing the reader the equipment used by the robot during the races