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A part of the robot created by the MIT School team Robofox

MIT School students have finished in 11th place in the robotics competition First Tech Challenge, in which young scientifics from all over Europe participate. MIT students reached the final round in 8th position, but a failure on the software got them away from the top ten. The meeting, held in Eindhoven on days 27, 28 and 29 March, marks the second time that MIT School participates.

The arrival in the Netherlands was accompanied by nerves, haste and modifications, but the experience allowed the team to solve any unforeseen smoothly. The first tests were positive for Robofox, which was the name the School chose to compete from then on. The robot moved with ease, grabbed buckets and hung on the enabled bar to be suspended in the air with ease. However, there were some problems in verifying the robots the second day, both in hardware and software.

On the third day it was time to compete. The team was very excited in the first round, but the illusion became nerves and failures. The pilots hung the robots on the bar too early and lost the first points of the contest. The nerves disappeared in the second round: Robofox finished a good performance and snuck into the top eight with the possibility to make a covenant for the final.

However, bad luck preyed upon the team in the third round. Throughout the day, the Program Chooser had been causing troubles to the opponents, and that also happened to the MIT School students. The robot lost communication with the control table during the last stage, and the team lost crucial points that delayed them from the 8th to the 11th position.

“The team was a little disappointed, but they have to understand that they are young (between 16 and 18 years) and the average age of the teams competing was 24 years. Personally, I think they have already laid the groundwork for a robotics team at MIT”, said Ignacio Arias, the teacher who accompanied the students in the Dutch city.

The School is very proud of the work of these great students, whose feat was echoed by La Opinión de Málaga, as you can see further down. Congratulations to all!

MIT School aparece en La Opiniòn de Málaga