Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finale (MIT)
MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center took on the aura of an old-fashioned county fair
on Thursday night, complete with popcorn, balloons, jugglers, cotton candy and
pitchmen wearing brightly colored jackets and bowties. But rather than ring
tosses and sheep-shearing, the central event was a series of one-on-one
matchups between an amazing variety of robots that students have spent the
whole semester designing, building and testing.
This was the culmination of MIT’s renowned course in mechanical engineering,
“Design and Manufacturing 1,” better known by its course number, 2.007. As
always, a series of tasks set by the designers of this year’s competition
triggered a wild proliferation of imaginative designs and strategies. But in
the end, relatively simple, stable and repeatable approaches won the
competition.
* Video: Watch the archived webcast of the finals
“You don’t always know what the best approach is going to be,” says Daniel
Frey, associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems
and the lead instructor of the class. And this year, a variety of tasks for
the robots to choose from, on a playing field modeled after a county fair,
added to the variety of approaches.
Even seemingly simple challenges can lead to …
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