by Jonathan Spalten. Many BattleBots alumni will remember the 3lber program, the new member training project in which new members break into teams and work together to make a 3lb combat robot, culminating in a road trip to Motorama to compete in a real competition. Like everything else this year, the team has had to…
Month: December 2020
Discipline Cores and their Purpose in RoboJackets
by Jonathan Spalten. In general, each RoboJackets Team is divided up into 3 subteams, organized based on their discipline: mechanical, electrical, and software. This enables the teams to divide and conquer the complex robotics challenges they choose to compete in. As a result, a great deal of knowledge in each discipline is developed on a…
The Development of the RoboCup Electrical Stack
by Dallas Downing. RoboCup is an international, annual convention meant to promote robotics research through a number of robot-based competitions. The primary goal of RoboCup is to field a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players against the World Cup winners–and win–by 2050. This challenge is quite complex, so different competitions are held within…
RoboResearch Volume 3
by Jonathan Spalten. Another newsletter; another opportunity to feature RoboJackets members who take part in robotics or robotics-adjacent research at the Institute. This month, like the last two, we’ll be featuring two more RoboJackets involved in research. This will be our final volume of RoboResearch in the 2020-2021 school year. Marine Maisonneuve, featured in an…
RoboCup Internal Meet & Greet
by James Reed. For many RoboJackets members the organization not only brings the opportunity to design and build awesome robots, but also creates an important space to make friends with like minded engineers and socialize. To this end, social events in-person have been a mainstay within the organization for years. However, due to COVID-19 these…