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This woman won a contest for a new PERGOMAX floor, with just one catch. We didn’t tell her she’d be hosting the ultimate robot deathmatch, featuring high school robotics students and their floor-torturing robots. Pergo & Battlebots: Floor Wars.

Like this video on Facebook, and you’ll be entered to win a new PergoMax floor of your own. (This time no BattleBots.) http://tinyurl.com/pergobb

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I was watching battlebots and it seems like if you mounted an ak47 on a bot, it would win the whole thing. Is that legal?

I haven’t looked up the official rules of the new version, but at least a couple of years ago:

Projectile weapons are allowed, but the projectile must be tethered so it will not travel more than 2 meters.

Gunpowder, blackpowder, and sodium azide (airbag detonators) explosives are strictly forbidden.

The projectile must be tested so that it cannot penetrate at any range a test barrier which is exactly one half the thickness of the arena walls.

So, while it may be possible to build a projectile weapon such as an air cannon that fires a large, slow steel slug: it would probably be a single shot weapon, and no, no guns are allowed.

Not only would that be way too unsafe: what’s the sport in that?

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scoring 1 minute and ten seconds with my BOT! Its record is 56″

Download the TRIAL version from battlebot.webs.com

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Superheavyweight match between the duel discs of Minion against the crushing arm of World Peace.

From BattleBots Las Vegas 1999.

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Intro to Robotics Class
May 2012

Howie Choset’s class isn’t all fun and games. Sure, these robots are fighting to push the other one out of the ring and, yes, there is screaming and swearing, but a lot more goes into building a battle bot than meets the eye.

A sample of the topics covered from the class syllabus:

Vision

Projection
Convolution
Edge Detection
Image Interpretation and ENS

Mobility – (mobile robot platforms)

Inertial Navigation Systems

Graph Search

Controls (and encoders)

Motion Planning

Potential Functions
Roadmaps
Cell Decompositions

Sensing and Sensors

Human Robot Interaction

Forward and Inverse Kinematics

Transformation Matrices

Inverse Kinematics

Geometric methods
Algebraic methods

Non-holonomic constraints

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