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Committee holds open house for Carnival weekend Mobot races

On Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon’s Mobot Committee will host a fall open house in preparation for the 14th-annual Mobot races, to take place during Carnival weekend 2008. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni from all departments are invited to form teams to design and construct a Mobot (derived from “mobile robot”) for the competition.

During the competition, the Mobots will follow a white line along a specific path on an outdoor course, which presents various technical difficulties for teams in terms of enabling the robot to navigate outdoors and on uneven terrain. Participants gain hands-on research experience in the course of determining the perception, action, and reasoning...

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