Alumni from years past may remember general meetings, events where the entire RoboJackets body would hear from a guest speaker or receive updates on the status of the organization. These meetings used to be a great way for teams to socialize amongst each other and a key opportunity for sponsors to host information and recruitment…
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Cabrera Visits the SCC
On September 26th, President Cabrera visited the SCC and had the chance to talk with students and check out the current projects. He chatted with all of the different SCC competition teams, including RoboJackets. While visiting the RoboJackets side, he got a chance to talk with Zach Slaton, the current RoboJackets president, and a few…
Spici
The RoboWrestling team specializes in autonomous robotic sumo wrestling. They’ve had challenges the past few years in finding competitions to compete at because of the cancellation of RoboGames in 2019, and because the pandemic has prevented them from travelling to the All-Japan Robot Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. However, RoboGames 2023 is back on, meaning the…
RoboCup
Each year, RoboJackets fields an entry in theRoboCup Small Scale League (SSL), a global competition where participants field a team of six autonomous soccer-playing robots. These robots coordinate among themselves to move around the field, dribble, pass, and score goals. In order to meet the performance requirements needed to play soccer, the members of RoboJackets…
BB Robot Overview
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…
Preparing for URC
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…
General Interest
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…
Meet the 2022-2023 Project Managers
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…
Leadership Retreat
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…
IGVC 2022
The 29th annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) was held this past June in Rochester, Michigan. This competition will be a familiar classic to our alumni; RoboJackets has been in attendance every year since 2003, with the only breaks being in 2005 and 2020 due to a lack of manpower and the COVID-19 pandemic, respectively….