Month: October 2022

Every year, BattleBots works on a great number of robots, ranging from the fleet of 3lbers that the new members do as a training project, all the way up to 30 lb combat robots to take to competitions all over the United States. This year, BattleBots has four large robots that their team members are…

Two years ago, RoboNav began their long-term plan to move away from the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) and instead begin participating in the University Rover Challenge (URC). We previously introduced this upcoming change in the March 2021 newsletter. The University Rover Competition still keeps the core focus of RoboNav, autonomous navigation, while increasing the…

Every year, RoboJackets reserves a lecture hall in Howey to host General Interest meetings, where new students at Georgia Tech can come and hear more about RoboJackets so they can pick their teams and join RoboJackets in earnest.  This year’s GI drew a combined 317 interested students. RoboCup and RoboNav saw the highest number of…

Every year, each of the teams has elections for our new Project Managers. They help guide the teams to work together to solve the many interdisciplinary engineering problems for each competition we participate in. As the new school year begins, we wanted to introduce the new project managers for our five teams.  RoboCup – Kevin…

The Leadership retreat was a tradition that began in 2015, involving the president, secretary, and leadership team. Today, the leadership retreat involves the elected core officers, project managers, subteam leads, and appointed positions, as well as a group of RoboJackets alumni. This is the second year that alumni have helped in the planning and execution…