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NASA Robots Beat Each Other Up

Posted by Hemos on from the better-then-battlebots? dept.

Shturmovik[KGB] writes ""Let's get ready to rumblllllllllllllle!" On Saturday night NASA is webcasting the big robot fight. A total of 49 machines, constructed by 2,000 high school students, will battle it out at the LA Arena. Should be good. Be there! You can watch it on the JPL website"

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  1. To summarize... by Amoeba · · Score: 5
    All posts regarding this article probably can be summarized by:

    "Dude! NASA's doing RobotWars! I got $5 on the Martian Pathfinder!"

    "RobotWars/BattleBots/CowboyNeal is much cooler than this and here is a link cause I'm karma whoring."

    "RobotWars/Battlebots is way better than RobotWars/Battlebots!"

    "This is actually the FIRST competition and is a NASA-funded educational program. The focus of this competition is not to break the other robots (which is actually against the rules), but to score points by putting balls into goals"

    "Robots+destruction=bad"

    "Robots+destruction=good"

    "All your bots are belong to us"

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    Do not taunt Happy-Fun Ball
  2. More information by CyberDawg · · Score: 4

    The link posted with the story didn't provide a whole lot of information, but you can get all you need to know at the 2001 documentation section of the FIRST Web site.

    This competition is a lot more education-oriented than "battlebots," and looks like a lot more fun.