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Sat, 15 Mar 2008
I didn't have as much time as I wanted to spend at the events and I also didn't really do very much of importance on this robot. It was all the hard work of the students and especially the team mentor Rick Guptill. This guy ate slept and breathed robots to help the team meet the ludicrously short 6 week design cycle mandated by the tournament rules.
The age of hobby robotics is truly upon us, much like hobby computing became realistic and affordable in the seventies and changed the world in the eighties. I have no doubts that this century will see the rise of semi-autonomous robotic armies and unmanned submarines that will change the way war is waged.
What, you thought this was all about robot butlers?