DRC has been very busy since FDOC! Post-comp our primary goal was to unpack from comp and then fully reorganize our room. Unpacking A few dedicated members took the initiative and fully unpacked everything extremely fast! Crush and Oogway survived the voyage across the country fully unscathed, so we could not be more pleased! In …
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As we conclude the Fall 2024 semester, the Duke Robotics Club reflects proudly on the progress we’ve made. This semester was filled with milestones, from transitioning our systems to ROS2 and advancing the design of our new minibot to redesigning electrical systems and conducting essential pool tests. Alongside these technical accomplishments, we onboarded the largest …
It’s no secret that we bring a lot of things to the RoboSub competition every year. The sheer mass of stuff equates to practically our entire lab. Shipping everything across the country is no easy feat, especially during the summer months. Packing the lab requires careful assessment of team needs and shipping requirements. Be it …
Shipping an entire team of Duke Robotics members to San Diego is no small feat. While everyone individually manages their own flights, the team has to coordinate many things, including arrival times, rental cars, and checking into the Airbnb. The most difficult transportee however, is our robot Oogway. About a week before the competition, we …
If you were to pass by Gross Hall on any typical Saturday, you could expect to smell the familiar scent of a dozen pies’ worth of Domino’s pizzas wafting from the Foundry. In other words, Duke Robotics was in session! Our engineers could be found scattered across the Foundry, funneling our collective brainpower into designing, …
Update 8/30: We won 4th place journal paper and 8th place overall out of 33 teams! Check out the winners or full scoresheet. In a normal world, we would have been arriving home today after a week of sleepless nights, boatloads of teamwork, and tons of fun in San Diego at RoboSub. But even though …
For the past two years, our club has been working closely with a local FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team, Team 6496. We, Vincent Wang and Maverick Chung, have been mentoring and supporting the high school team since our freshman year, teaching them a variety of engineering-related skills by helping with the construction and design process. …
This afternoon, David Miron (our Programming Lead) and I presented at Bethesda Christian Academy’s science week. We were honored to be the conclusion to the 160 elementary and middle school students’ week-long dive into different STEM topics. We introduced them to the field of robotics, showed them various examples of robots all over different industries, …
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We recently wrapped up our brand new intro project, and we couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. Our retention rate was much higher: about 30 out of 70 new members stayed for over a month. And those who stayed felt much more empowered to contribute, joining our subteams with excitement! We will definitely …
RoboSub ended a couple of weeks ago, and we had an absolute blast! Eleven of us flew to San Diego for nine days to get Cthulhu, our new robot, up and running in the TRANSDEC. (Click on “Cthulhu” to see our team video and journal paper.) Above: Duke RoboSub 2019 team (from left): Samuel Rabinowitz, …
See our writeup in the 2017 DukEngineer magazine: DukEngineer17 Article
We began our year with Bot Battle as a way to introduce underclassmen to both members of the club and the robotics fundamentals we work with. Partnering with the Innovation Co-Lab, we prepared kits, held office hours, and led workshops covering topics from controls to Arduino basics. In the final tournament, each robot fought in rounds …
In 2016, we hosted the first Bot Battle competition designed to get students excited about autonomous vehicles and robotics. The competition took place from 9/24/16 to 10/2/16. Twelve teams came out and competed- each building an autonomous mobile robot with different strategies for staying alive and taking down rival bots- but there could only be one …
Robosub 2016 has come and gone already. It was a wild ride, and we couldn’t be happier with the way things turned out. Eleven team members flew out to San Diego from across the US, putting their internships and projects on hold for nine days to hack hard, test the bot, and compete at the TRANSDEC. Our team …
We have finally mounted the DVL, fresh back from Teledyne after receiving a tune-up. We are continuing to fine tune the controls in a series of recent pool tests. Next step, finishing up acoustics and testing the system on board.
This Friday, we hosted Pratt’s E-Social. This is basically a free-beer-and-pizza that our school helps sponsor every Friday for engineering students. We used it as an opportunity to unveil our new robot for the first time to the community. Reception was positive! Next time: better demo in a swimming pool?
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