January–December 2006
Competition is an excellent stimulant for great student design in robotics. Supporting a strong student robotics team internationally not only gives hands-on experience outside of the classroom, it also generates wider interest in robotics and artificial intelligence. The goal of this project was to design a team of soccer-playing robots to compete with other robots nationally and internationally in RoboCup and to also create a lasting foundation for an MIT team after its original members have graduated. The MIT team joined with students from Harvard, and the combined team made a striking “rookie” performance at the U.S. Open in Atlanta, qualifying to advance to the world championship.
Student Participants: Walker Chan, Matt George, Richard Gong, Kristina Haller, Andrew Harlan, Jeff Ma, Prabhas Pokharel, Jie Tang, Richard Timm, Jean Yang