Teenage Robotics Engineers Unleash Their Creations in "Lunacy" Battles [Slide Show]
With the national championship robotics competition less than a month away, 66 teams of young engineers have their bots throw down in New York City
Teenage Robotics Engineers Unleash Their Creations in "Lunacy" Battles [Slide Show]
- FINAL TUNE-UP: Science Skills Center High School's Jamel Dennis, age 15, examines his team's temperamental robot before its last round.* * Correction (3/24/09): This article originally identified Dennis's high school as Brooklyn Tech rather than Science Skills Center High School... © SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
- LAST MINUTE REPAIRS: Brooklyn's Science Skills Center High School's robot was crippled before its last competition by a broken chain.* Raymond Castro, age 15 and captain of the Skillz Tech Gear Botz team, first noticed the problem and began repairs that were later completed with Super Glue before the bot took to the field one last time... © SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
- ROBO COUGARS: Robotics rookies from from Essex County Vocational Technical Schools in N.J., the Robo Cougars held their own with a tried-and-simple design. "Building the robot was going to be the most difficult, so we decided to do something simple and it's working so far—it hasn't messed up," says team captain Jorge Garcia, 16, pictured... © SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
- RUBBER MATCH: Seth Berg, 17, of Stuyvesant High School demonstrates the spongy ball delivery system of rubber tubes, a central feature on the school's successful robot, Michael 1, designed by the students using Autodesk Inventor software, then pieced together inside an aluminum frame... © SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
