SOUTHFIELD – Autonomous vehicles hold the promise of safer, more sustainable, and more inclusive transportation. So it’s a natural that Robofest, the youth robotics competition created by Lawrence Technological University in 1999, would focus this year’s Game competition on vehicle autonomy.
Joining Matt and Mike on MITech TV is Shannon Palonis, who manages Robofest, to talk about this year’s game, called “Autonomous Taxi.” In the game, a robot “taxi” will pick up “passengers” (golf balls) at one end of a table and take them to destinations, boxes placed around the table, maneuvering around “pedestrians,” D-size batteries. One of the passengers must be placed on the “second floor” of a destination box. Simple bar codes will be used to identify the destinations.
More info at www.robofest.net
