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Maryland Day 2010

Robotics @ Maryland got the opportunity to demo our robots to the campus at the annual Maryland Day this year.

Tortuga took up its normal residence in the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility and swam for nearly 5 hours. During that time, we demonstrated the robots advanced AI and let kids drive the robot around the tank.

In the image to the right, you can see the robot operating table and Nate Davidge, a member of the club who graduated last year, driving the robot.

Donatello drove around the Kim building and demonstrated its control and pathfinding algorithms.

All Nighter Testing Success

Note: Transfered from the news archive, originally posted Jul. 22nd 2008

Today was the last day of testing with the robot before we ship it in a big crate to San Diego. Club members were in attendance at our test facility from 12pm until 4pm the next day when the truck came to pick up our crate! After 10 hours of in water testing the vision and AI started playing nicely together and we successfully retrieved the treasure several times autonomously. We also found and fixed a critical embedded software bug.

Below, the vehicle hovers above the yellow and white PVC "safe", preparing to snatch it to the surface.

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