Building Bots, Building Skills Students Strive to Make Saturday's Robot Battle a Smashing Success
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › April 08, 2009
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The robots vying for victory this weekend during BotsIQ Wisconsin at Discovery World are destined to die.
At the radio-controlled whims of their masters, they will spin, hammer and charge. They'll rattle around, fly through the air, shatter, splinter and fail -- all to the delight of a cheering mob foaming for more.See the full content of this document
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Building Bots, Building Skills Students Strive to Make Saturday's Robot Battle a Smashing Success
If robots felt pain, these certainly would.
"We can pin them up against the wall, flip them over or smash into them over and over," says Shawn Pivotto, 18, who was helping assemble his team's boxy "ram bot."The four-man squad from the Second Chance Education Program -- where stu...See the full content of this document
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