Robot Races Spur Good-Natured Competition Among Engineering Students

Assistant Professor of Engineering Matt Zucker's mobile robotics class put a semester's worth of knowledge to practical use as his students designed, assembled, and raced robots in the course's culminating activity. Zucker's course addresses the problems of controlling and motivating robots to act intelligently. The semester-end races allow students to take a break from their intensive work in the lab and see what their classmates have been working on, as well as develop a better understanding of the concepts they've learned.