Imperial College London Robotics Society students are gearing up for the finals of Eurobot. The team has already got through the initial rounds in UK in the international robotics competition. The team comprises of Leon Sim, Ben Homer, Asset Sarsengaliyev and supervisor Richard Inglis.
As per the team the competition is fought between robots, which have been designed and built by student teams to autonomously move playing pieces around a giant chess board in 90-second matches. When a robot successfully moves a piece to a square of the team’s colour it scores 10 points, with bonus points awarded for completing certain tasks, such as placing a piece on the head of the opponent’s robot.
Since none of the team from Imperial college had much experience of robotics, they light heartedly called our team ‘IC-r-us’ after the Greek hero Icarus, patron saint of crashing and burning. They found at the Middlesex University that all the other robots were all bigger, meaner and scarier than theirs. However their little robots saved the day and they emerged as the UK champions.
They were amongst the three teams that were selected to compete in the world finals slated to be held in Russia in June. The team said that while winning was fun the real fun had been trying to solve the engineering problems along the way.