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Below are the latest stories from our monthly newsletter! To subscribe and get these sent to your inbox each month, click this link.

RoboJackets, Inc.
by Jonathan Spalten. RoboJackets is an organization that participates in a wide range of robotics competitions, and as a result, has a tremendous need for financial resources. These resources are
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Volunteers for FRC Kickoff
FRC Kickoff 2021
by Kyla Qi. A core part of the RoboJackets mission is to support local K-12 robotics programs. Since 2008, a major part of the support we provide has been hosting
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PCB Competition
by Joe Spall. Over the course of winter break, a few of our members participated in an internal Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Competition, organized by a few of our
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New shop mural
Shop Rehab Day
by Cameron Loyd. Just after finals ended last semester, a small team of our members dedicated some of their free days to cleaning, organizing, and improving our space in the
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RoboCup current structure
RoboCup’s Transition to ROS
by Evan Bretl. Our RoboCup team is in the middle of a major software re-organization, re-writing key parts of their software stack in order to leverage ROS 2. What is
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Newsletter Archive

Below are previous newsletter stories from months past. Enjoy!

January 2021

A RoboRacing member works on Rigatoni
RoboRacing – January 2021 Update
by Evan Bretl. Despite the challenges brought on by the pandemic, RoboRacing has continued to move forward on its goals and invest in the future of the team. Both the
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A member poses with the completed Swervi test rig
RoboNav – January 2021 Update
by Dallas Downing. The RoboNav team saw many changes in 2020. The spring semester saw the completion of the third iteration of Jessiii, the robot designed for IGVC (read more
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RoboCup robots being tested
RoboCup – January 2021 Update
by Kyla Qi. This semester saw a lot of progress for our RoboCup team. The international competition of the same name in which they compete is still on for 2021,
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RoboWrestling robots
RoboWrestling – January 2021 Update
by Joe Spall. RoboJackets has participated in autonomous and RC Sumo competitions in California and Japan in the past as part of BattleBots. This semester RoboJackets has formed a separate
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BattleBots – January 2021 Update
by Jonathan Spalten. Aside from the new member 2 lb program in Battlebots that we covered in our December issue, Battlebots subteams work on a variety of larger bots. This
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December 2020

RoboResearch volume 3
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
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RoboCup Robot
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
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Two members participating in machine training
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
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2 lber Program Update
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
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RoboCup meet and greet call
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
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November 2020

Software training in 2018
New Member Training
by Jonathan Spalten Participating in RoboJackets involves a great deal of hands-on engineering knowledge and an intense desire to learn. Because RoboJackets accepts members regardless of prior experience in robotics,
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RoboNav and BattleBots social
RoboJackets Team Socials
by Jonathan Spalten. RoboJackets places robotics as the focus of our endeavors, but sometimes it pays to slow down and give our members a chance to get to know each
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RoboResearch: Volume Two
by Jonathan Spalten. Another newsletter brings us another opportunity to feature RoboJackets members who take part in robotics or robotics-adjacent research at the Institute. Just as we did last month,
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Jessi design review
IGVC Retrospective
by Dallas Downing The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) was started in 1993 as a spin off of the International Aerial Robotics Competition. The goal of the competition was to
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People counter
RoboJackets IT and the People Counter System
by James Reed With an organization as large as RoboJackets, it's no surprise that we face many challenges associated with simply keeping the organization running smoothly. Thankfully, we have talented
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October 2020

Group call as part of leadership retreat
Virtual Leadership Retreat
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
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Tabling at GI
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
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RoboJackets leading a symposium session
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
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Varun and Oswin research
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
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RoboRacing working on Bigoli
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
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September 2020

RoboJackets volunteering at an FRC event
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
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RoboJackets shop
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
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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
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Kirbii RoboWrestling robot
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
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Group picture of this year's leads
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
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August 2020

Map of competitions
RoboJackets by the Numbers
RoboJackets is a prolific competitive robotics organization with a twenty-one-year-long history. In that time, we’ve grown from a small group of passionate students that wanted to build a combat robot
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Swerve module with directional arrows
RoboNav – August Spotlight
RoboNav, formerly referred to as IGVC, is taking its drivetrain in a bold new (omni) direction. A typical IGVC robot in RoboJackets has two powered wheels and a caster to
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RoboJackets and Thunderbots pose together after a match
RoboCup – August Spotlight
RoboCup, the international competition centered around autonomous soccer, is an excellent opportunity for roboticists across the world to meet and collaborate. Our RoboCup team is taking that opportunity to collaborate
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RoboRacing – August Spotlight
RoboRacing, the RoboJackets team dedicated to autonomous racing, is participating in a new competition this year: evGrand Prix. RoboRacing has participated in the International Autonomous Robot Racing Challenge and at
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CAD of Chonki
BattleBots – August Spotlight
Last year in BattleBots, one of the large bots that participated in the hobbyweight (12 lb weight limit) division at Motorama was Apachi, an experimental bent-bar spinner with a shuffler-style
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RoboWrestling team at competition
RoboWrestling – August Spotlight
RoboJackets has been participating in sumo robotics competitions for six years, starting with two remote-controlled sumo robots at RoboGames 2015 as a part of BattleBots. Since then, our sumo team
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