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May 2, 2016 02:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/25Z6wl1fIIo/robots-battle-in-25th-annual-first-competition
Robots Battle In 25th Annual FIRST Competition
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vice: Saturday marked the conclusion of the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition, which saw over 20,000 high school students from around the world descend on St. Louis, Missouri... 900 teams pitted their robots against one another in various games... The ultimate robotics test occurred in the championship round, known as the FIRST Stronghold, which involves two alliances composed of three robots each. At each end of a pitch are two towers, representing each allianceâ(TM)s stronghold. The alliances must breach their opponentâ(TM)s stronghold by throwing boulders to goals on the tower to weaken it.There's some embedded videos from the event in Vice's article, which points out that it's the competition's 25th anniversary. (Here's Slashdot's post about the event from 2004). This year 40,000 people attended, including will.i.am and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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