Every year at the beginning of the Fall semester, our leadership team for the coming school year meet at what we have come to call the Leadership Retreat. They use this time as an opportunity to reflect on previous experience, look to the future, and get to know each other. Informal meetings where leaders reflect…
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Virtual Recruiting Efforts
The lifeblood of RoboJackets that enables us to fulfill our mission to promote, educate, and advance in the field of robotics is, of course, our members. Every year, we dedicate hundreds of man hours to acquiring and training new members, and this year is no different. The main way we usually interact with prospective members…
Georgia FIRST Symposium
RoboJackets Outreach works closely with Georgia FIRST, a branch of the international FIRST organization that organizes robotics competitions for students from kindergarten to high school. One of the premier FIRST events in the fall is the Georgia FIRST Symposium, in which a large number of local teams come together to participate in workshops and interactive…
RoboResearch: Volume One
As part of RoboJackets, our members gain skills that serve them well in a variety of contexts, and academic research is no exception. We’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the research our members are involved in within the robotics space. Varun Madabushi, well known for his contributions to electrical teams across…
RoboRacing – evGrand Prix and Rigatoni
RoboRacing, our team focused on autonomous racing robots, has been making platforms of various shapes and sizes over the 6 years since its inception. Initially formed to compete in the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC), the first platforms were approximately 1/10th scale Remote Control (RC) cars with laptops mounted directly on the chassis. While…
Restructuring Outreach
The ultimate goal of RoboJackets is threefold: promotion, education and advancement of robotics. We, as an organization, are well equipped to do all three, and our structure should be equipped similarly well to accomplish these goals. Recently, RoboJackets leadership has made the decision to change how Outreach is handled in RoboJackets. As many alumni will…
Safely Reopening the SCC
When campus was shut down late spring semester, so too were all RoboJackets activities. Even our members who remained in the Atlanta area were barred from campus until a concrete plan to deal with COVID-19 was put forth by the institute. In early August, we were allowed back into our space in the Student Competition…
Introducing Aimi: A RoboJackets Hobby Project
All of the robots in RoboJackets are built to solve a competition problem statement: knock a robot out of the ring, play soccer, navigate off-road, destroy another robot, or race around a track. When our members are not solving these crazy problem statements (and of course balancing life and school work), many like to kick…
Introducing the RoboWrestling Robots
RoboJacket’s newest team, RoboWrestling, participates in autonomous robotic sumo competitions, typically held in Tokyo, Japan. The goal of this competition, as is the case with real sumo wrestling, is to push an opposing robot out of the arena, referred to as the dohyō. When two robots face off, they compete in up to three matches….
Meet the Project Managers & Outreach Chair: Interview Feature
RoboJackets (often abbreviated RJ) is an organization that manages to participate in a myriad of robotics competitions and activities to further our mission to promote, educate, and advance the field of robotics. We couldn’t do this without a robust and effective leadership structure, populated with leaders who are passionate about their projects and work tirelessly…