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Students Compete in Mechatronics Robotics Competition

Dozens of student teams in Cornell’s College of Engineering vied for a shot to beat corporate sponsor ASML in the annual Mechatronics robotics competition.

“We mainly focused on simplicity and robustness of the robot,” said Young June Park  , a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering. “Our basic goal was to make the robot get its job done without any malfunctions, both in hardware and software. Our original design had much more complicated strategy and functions – like more sensors and foldable arms – but we decided to simplify the design as much as possible to secure the performance and avoid unforeseen errors.”

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    00:00:00 Music playing... [In preparation for the annual Robotics Day competition...] [engineering students spent weeks building and fine-tuning their robots.] [The challenge: robots were to collect as many blocks on its side of the board as possible...] [in 60 seconds.] [Teams integrated several skills to create the ultimate autonomous robot.] [mechanical design,] [coding,] [circuit building,] [and creativity.]

    00:00:37 [On December 1 in Duffield Hall, 53 teams faced off to see which robot would prevail.] Crowds cheering. We have a QTI sensor, which is supposed to detect the difference between dark and light colors. But we couldn't quite figure out how to get it to detect the difference between dark blue and black. Announcer speaking. We had to do some last-minute changes because our arm was too big and it did not fit in the cylinder, so yesterday we had to change the entire arm.

    00:01:12 We have a license plate that says Shizzbot because her nickname is Shizzle. [The winning team scored the opportunity to battle a robot made by corporate sponsor, ASML.]