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Student Activities
Robotics team goes national
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| DIY Robot Rivals
expert Brian Nave (left), with Clemson students Iris
Johnson, James Holcombe and team captain, Charly Hermanson. |
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Clemson
University students took on the University of Utah in the
new television series Robot Rivals! The Clemson
episode aired in May, on the Do It Yourself Network.
This
series takes bright students from rival colleges, puts them
in a gigantic warehouse stocked full of parts and gadgets
and challenges them to build robots that can perform specific
tasks. The winning team then goes on to next-round competition.
The Clemson and Utah students had to build “Bomb Retrieval” robots
that could penetrate a sheetrock wall, retrieve an egg (which
represented the bomb), then take it to a safe place (basket).
Unfortunately, in this case, it will be Utah who will advance.
Other
engineering teams picked for the first season include Harvard,
Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Cal Berkeley, MIT, Georgia Tech
and Virginia Tech. Winners will compete in a tournament later
in the year.
The
Clemson team included captain Charly Hermanson, from Bangkok,
Thailand, a senior in electrical engineering; James Holcombe,
an Anderson native and senior in computer engineering; Iris
Johnson, a senior in electrical engineering from Mullins,
SC.; and Will McMahan, a senior in electrical engineering
from Springfield, VA.
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