By Cameron Loyd and Jonathan Spalten It’s been several long years since RoboWrestling has gone to competition, but the time has finally come. We’ll be presenting a high level overview of their robot, Kirbi, and covering Kirbii’s debut at Robogames 2023. The RoboWrestling team was created to compete in autonomous sumo competitions, a specific brand…
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RoboWrestling New Member Projects
by Jonathan Spalten. A big part of RoboJackets is ensuring that new members are able to contribute in meaningful ways early on in their RoboJackets career. This month, we’d like to feature some of the projects that new members are working on as a part of RoboWrestling, the newest team in RoboJackets dedicated to robotic…
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 team to compete in these competitions: RoboWrestling! For a quick recap, autonomous Sumo competitions involve two robots going head-to-head to localize and push their opponent…
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….
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 has grown in membership and scope, participating in the annual All Japan Robot Sumo Competition in the autonomous division for four years. Pictured is the…