Robots (and Their Student Creators) Compete in Big Tournament This Weekend
Schools from the Northeast bring their autonomous and remote-controlled robots to compete in shooting basketballs and balancing on Teeter-Totters.
FRC 1100, FRC 157, FRC 467 and FRC 4048 are competing this weekend, with robots. We don't know what those numbers mean, either. Until a model reaches R2D2 or C3PO status, it's hard to remember what it is. But we do know that students from Northborough, Marlborough, Shrewsbury and Westborough high schools will join 48 robotics teams from throughout the Northeast to compete in the 13th Annual BattleCry Robotics Competition at WPI in Worcester on May 18 and 19. They'll see which robots can shoot basketballs the best, balance on a Teeter-Totter or balance. Spectators this year watch autonomous and remote-controlled robots shoot basketballs into a series of hoops at either end of a 54-foot-long field. At the end of each two-minute, 15-second …
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