Tridroid Cup - Robots Play Soccer

The students in this year's Mechanical Engineering 72 (ME72) class, a two-term engineering design lab for mechanical engineering majors, designed, built, and operated, under manual and/or autonomous control, robotic vehicles that could compete and withstand the physical rigors of a robot soccer matches played within a 24-ft x 48-ft arena in the Brown Gym. The 2016 winning team was “Blitzkrieg Bots.” [KPCC coverage]