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RoboNav End Effector Spotlight

Posted on May 12, 2022May 14, 2022

RoboNav’s shift from IGVC to URC prompted the team to focus on finding solutions to new tasks requiring the robot to manipulate different objects such as rocks, tools and even an USB stick. To investigate these new components for the design of their rover, RoboNav’s mechanical team divided into 3 groups: the drive train, arm…

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RetroTECH Social Spotlight

Posted on May 12, 2022May 14, 2022

RoboJackets has a long history of involving its members in events beyond their weekly meetings. These have manifested as General Meetings, where the club would invite professors to give talks on technical topics that may or not be directly related to robotics. In addition to these, RJ would often host socials, in which members could…

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Motorama 2022

Posted on May 12, 2022May 14, 2022

One of the bigger competitions the BattleBots subteam has attended over the years has been Motorama, a car show in Harrisburg Pennsylvania that also has a combat robotics competition (Motorama Robot Conflict) hosted by NERC (Northeast Robotics Club). The competition has robots all across weight classes, from the diminutive 1 lb antweights all the way…

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Meet the Core Officers

Posted on May 12, 2022May 14, 2022

With the spring 2022 semester drawing to a close, the next core leadership team has been elected for the 2022-23 academic year. The core officer team is integral to the operation and success of the organization as a whole, ensuring that RoboJackets makes progress on its missions and goals. We would love to take this…

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New Leadership

Posted on March 14, 2022May 15, 2022

Occasionally, RoboJackets officers will have to leave their position in the organization, often due to internships or study abroad opportunities that would limit their ability to perform their duties as an officer. In these situations interim elections are held to determine their replacements for the spring. We took some time to meet these new officers…

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MyRoboJackets Android

Posted on March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

Over the years, RoboJackets has developed processes to support our primary mission of promoting, educating, and advancing robotics. From training to purchasing, these support processes impact members in quiet ways but  drastically improve member experience and technical project execution. One tool that every member has used but probably few have noticed is the member management…

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FRC Kickoff 2022

Posted on March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

One of the central tenets of RoboJackets as a student organization is our commitment to promoting robotics. One of the best ways to do that is to engage students in robotics as early as possible. FIRST robotics shares this goal and organizes robotics competitions for K-12 students. RoboJackets has played a role in their mission…

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RoboNav – Fall Semester Update

Posted on January 12, 2022January 16, 2022

by Dallas Downing This Fall was a productive semester for RoboNav. The team made great progress on Swervi, the newest IGVC robot, since plans for it started in the Spring of 2020.  As the manufacturing and assembly are nearing completion, the team has also made great progress on the electrical components for the diagnostic system….

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RoboCup – Fall Semester Update

Posted on January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

by Kyla Qi RoboCup 2022 is 7 months away, and the team is hard at work tuning gameplay and building their second fleet.  Having achieved a stable platform for the software team to test on, the electrical and mechatronics subteams are making good progress on the second fleet, with the intent of using the new…

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RoboRacing – Fall Semester Update

Posted on January 12, 2022January 16, 2022

Being the RoboJackets team with the first competition this school year, RoboRacing has been busy learning and improving! The team has been preparing to enter evGrand Prix Autonomous, the go-kart scale autonomous racing competition, starting all the way back in 2019 after the conclusion of Sparkfun AVC. This two year time frame gave the team…

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