Robotics Competition

I took the boys to see my 18-y-o's Robotics Competition today. There were 500 high school teams competing for supremacy. The teams manufactured and programmed large rectangular robots. The object of the game was to minimize the number of balls placed into your own towed cart, while putting as many balls as possible into the other guys' carts. Theirs was Robot 589, and they did pretty well. My son's duties were to program the robot's movements. At times the robots operated on their own, and at times they operated under radio controls.
Here he is with the robot after the competition.

And here are the little brothers--future robot operators.