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RobotFest

PennBots returned to the National Electronics Museum on Saturday, April 30th, to provide fighting robot demonstrations as part of RobotFest. After rubbing elbows with B9 and R2D2 (Figure 14), checking out the fighting tanks (Figure 15) and Battleships (Figure 16), observing the 3D printers make chess pieces and robot parts (Figure 17), watching the Boy Scouts demonstrate their robots as part of earning their Robotics Merit Badge (Figure 18), and just taking in the great robotics atmosphere, the demonstration started with a game of Bot Hockey using PennBots club bots (Figure 19). Needless to say, it didn’t take long for a fight to break out at the Bot Hockey game, and soon the PennBots club fighting robots, as well as some returning Hack-A-Bot fighting robots, joined the melee. RobotFest attendees took turns driving PennBots club fighting robots all afternoon (Figure 20). The main attraction on day two of RobotFest was the fighting robot competition. Participants in the competition (Figure 21) included three returning Hack-A-Bot workshop alumni, and one guest driver from a local high school who was attending the competition as part of an engineering study program. Fourteen Insect Class bots fought for the gold in Flea, Ant, and Beetle weight classes.

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