Chief Delphi - Now that's a Robot Show! "Robot Rivals"

Page 1 of 2

Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page

Chief Delphi (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/index.php)

- Televised Robotics (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=49)

- - Now that's a Robot Show! "Robot Rivals" (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20373)

AJ Quick

20-04-2003 19:48

Now that's a Robot Show! "Robot Rivals"

There is a new show on the Do-It-Yourself Network (http://www.diynet.com/) called "Robot Rivals". This show is amazing.. I am just watching the first episode tonight, and what they are doing is great. It is just like FIRST robotics...

Check out info here: http://www.nspe.org/etweb/14-03rivalrobots.asp

They use IFI Issac 32 Systems, Victors, CIM Motors, Bosch, and a bunch of other parts that appear in our kit of parts. They get 8 hours to do a build a robot to do a specific thing (like Junkyard Wars), then they go on if they win in a ladder style competition. They have to do the things FIRST does, program, design, build test.. but they don't have the comfort of the 6 weeks.

This is seriously the first Robotics show I've liked for a long time. Tell me what you think.. if you have seen it or whatnot. This is a great show, too bad it is on such a unknown network.

Next airings:

Sun 20 6:00 PM
Fri 25 8:00 PM
Fri 25 11:00 PM
Sat 26 9:00 PM
Sun 27 12:00 AM
Sun 27 6:00 PM
Fri 2 8:00 PM
Fri 2 11:00 PM
Sat 3 9:00 PM
Sun 4 12:00 AM
Sun 4 6:00 PM

Jeff Waegelin

20-04-2003 19:53

Sounds cool. I'll have to check it out next time it's on.

Andy Baker

21-04-2003 10:25

Purdue - 461

I've not seen it yet, but I hear that the FIRSTers from Purdue (Westside Boiler Invasion - team 461) are kicking some major 'bot in this competition.

Also... I hear that they are the only FIRST-experienced people in the competition, so we can all pull for them.

Go WBI!!

Andy B.

Joe Matt

21-04-2003 10:39

Interseting. What type of challanges are these? Like Junkyard or more like FIRST?

Jeff Waegelin

21-04-2003 11:05

Grrr... I looked at my channel listings, and I don't even get the channel that it's shown on.... boo!

AJ Quick

21-04-2003 12:41

Quote:

Originally posted by JosephM
Interseting. What type of challanges are these? Like Junkyard or more like FIRST?

The one I saw, was to make a robot that can pick up a small soccer ball, and shoot it into a goal. It is a cross between FIRST and Junkyard Wars. They get a kit of parts, and a common household item to turn into their robot.

DougHogg

21-04-2003 17:58

FIRST mentioned in regards to TV show...

From

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...type=printable

San Francisco Chronicle
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer

Quote:

What happens to FIRST Robotics Competition veterans after they graduate from high school? They launch their television careers, of course.
...

The latest robotics program is "Robot Rivals" on the Do It Yourself Network (available on some digital cable networks, DirecTV and DISH Network). It features three UC Berkeley students -- seniors Eric Park and Daniel Lehrbaum, and first-year graduate student Bharathmwaj Muthuswamy -- facing students from 13 other colleges for bragging rights.

Most robotics competitions aren't made for TV. According to David Calkins, president of the Robotics Society of America, based in San Francisco, about 400 people in the Bay Area compete in dozens of robotics tournaments locally and around the country. "San Francisco probably has the most roboticists per square foot in the country," Calkins said.

They include Park, who grew up in Millbrae, and Lehrbaum, who grew up in Palo Alto and plays on Cal's club ice hockey team. The two are old rivals from FIRST competitions. The producers of "Robot Rivals" found them through Professor Ron Fearing's mechatronic design class.

AJ Quick

25-05-2003 18:40

Has anyone been watching this show?

It is great! It gives me a FIRST fix every week.

WernerNYK

27-06-2003 22:20

Excellent show. Now if only I could figure out how they determined which schools to choose for the show, and hope that they produce a second season, hopefully with WPI included this time :D

Dallin

16-07-2003 01:23

One of the two advisors is a friend of mine. I think the way it basically works is you email him and ask to be on the show. Me and two other friends will be representing FIU probably in the next season, which should be pretty cool. All three of us have done FIRST since 1999 and I have done Battlebots IQ since 2000. It should prove interesting. PM me and I could probably get you in contact with him, I dont have his card on me right now but I'll give you a link to his website. http://www.teamdavinci.com/ , just look for Brett "Buzz" Dawson, hes the crazy bald guy =)

Also for an episode list of season 1 and what "competition" they did, check out http://www.teamdavinci.com/robot_rivals.htm

KelliV

16-09-2004 17:58