MIT's festival of anguish, elation and extreme engineering — the 2.007 Mechanical Engineering Design Contest — takes place annually. Dubbed the "mother of all robot contests," 2.007 has been replicated worldwide in engineering schools and on television. For more information, visit the 2.007 website.
A video of a person designing a machine from start to finish, warts and all.
Design 2.007, MIT's annual festival of machine design, manufacturing and adrenalin, culminated in a clash between two major crowd-pleasers: a grappler-trailer combo designed and driven by David Arguelles, and a truck-and-winch machine designed and driven by Kurtis McKenney. The contest, now ...
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MIT's annual 2.007 mechanical engineering robot contest has been dubbed the mother of all robot contests.
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The final match of the 2008 2.007: Design and Manufacturing I robotics conest, between Ethan Huwe and Greg Tao. Ethan's machine had previously achieved the two highest scores in the competition, but Greg's awesome strategy of scoring quickly and defending paid off in the end. Both will have ...
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Student-built vehicles compete in a 50 meter drag race and a climb to the top of a 4-storey parking garage. The products of this semester included go-karts, scooters, longboards, and even a set of powered roller skates.
Quasi-holonomic, extending tape measure lift, and controlled via touch-tone phone played over speakers. Read more about 2.007: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-007-design-and-manufacturing-i-spring-2009/
Hear from some of the students that participated in the 2.007 Competition 2010 and some advice they have on building robots and engineering in general.
