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In the news – UCSD Guardian
Filed under Site NewsMay 24
Story by Neda Salamat
Demolishing $2,000 worth of electronic equipment isn’t normally a cause for celebration. But for the 25 students on UCSD’s Triton Robotix team — lead by Warren College sophomore Daniel Yan and Sixth college senior Allen Jiang, it’s all in a hard day’s work.
After competing on the television show “Battle Bots” last April, Yang and Jiang, a fourth year from Sixth College, hit the road with 12 other members of Robotix, a 120-pound robot and two three-pound mini robots. They drove to San Mateo, Calif., to compete in this year’s Robogames competition — an annual weekend showdown between robots from Canada, Puerto Rico and Brazil. At the end of the three-day battle, Robotix emerged fifth out of 21 competitors.
“We’re really excited to have been in the top 20 percent internationally,” Jiang said.
The club was started two years back as an outlet for student engineers who wanted practical training at a university that, according to Yang, is predominantly hands-off in its teaching methods.
“We have very few opportunities to try things,” Yang said. “We just study. This gives you a chance to experiment with things you learn; although a majority of it is that we like to engineer things, and we like to engineer things that destroy other things.”
And on the destroying front, Kraken — Triton Robotix’s middle-weight-class robot — has been pretty successful. Between 10 club members, The metal droid took six to eight months to plan and build, spread over 12 in six-hour build sessions.
Full article: http://www.ucsdguardian.org/focus/fight-club/
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