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new Robotics show
Here's everything I know about this new show. I guess the first paragraph of the last post describe the show best.
Dan ------------------------------------------- Posted by Brian Nave on the BattleBots forum on July 9th: "OK, here is the deal... Buzz and I have been chosen to co-host a new television series that is being produced in Knoxville, TN. We shoot the pilot on July 17th. As it turns out one of the college teams that was scheduled to do the shoot may not be good TV material. The producer of the show has contacted me to see if there are any other college-aged people available to do a shoot on July 17th. This is NOT a promise, or commitment that ANY of you will be chosen... Do NOT get your hopes up! This is ONLY to find out what people are available, just in case some alternates are needed at the last second. So YOU are committing that you will be available on that date, including reasonable travel time (they are covering the travel and expenses). We need a team of three that will represent a college. So you must be college aged and able to build robots. My understanding is that you need not be IN college or even from the same place, only that you are college AGED. I am seeking clarification of this now. These will be complex autonomous robots, so a remote controlled box of motors is NOT a robot." -------------------------------------- Same botguy, same bot-forum, same bot-date: "The best way to describe the show would be Junkyard Wars with Robots. If any of you have seen the show "Warehouse Warriors" then you know the concept... it is the same Production Company. Two teams are given a task and a certain amount of time to complete it. Parts are available in the warehouse. Design the bot, get the parts, build it, make it work better than the other team, win. I don't know what prizes, if any are being offered. I DO know it is all expenses paid. P.S. That's funny... the font shows up bigger on my screen than the normal font, not smaller... what does the font look like to others, I wonder?" _____________________ Posted by the other host of the show, Brett "Buzz" Dawson on July 10th on the BB forum: "The concept of the show, as Brian said, is to build a bot from scratch in 8 hours to perform a specific task. The task will vary from episode to episode and the teams will not know what the task is until the day of the show. And, it is quite possible that they will not all be autonomous. Some show may incorporate hobby controllers like Futaba and HiTec to show that it can be done with a variety of controllers. The show will be on DIY, the Do It Yourself network and therefore will be not only about the competition but how the viewer can do it at home. So, how did we come by this gig? The show's producer have given a professor at UT (I think) the duty of finding a couple of hosts. Well, I guess he dropped the ball and things didn't get done so the producer hired a head hunter to find someone. Well, this head hunter used to work at the KSC Press Site and asked one of her former coworkers if there were any engineers here at NASA that had robotics experience that may consider it. I was at the top of the list and therefore got the call from Lucha, the headhunter, about 15 minutes later. She explained the concept and asked for an audition tape (that had to be in their hands in two days). She asked if I knew of anyone else that may be interested in doing it as well. Since Brian and I are good friends and talk quite frequently and he is very good in front of a camera I forwarded the info to him and told Lucha, Gary, and Tom about it. My understading from Tom and Brian are that 12 people applied for the spots, 10 from US FIRST and 2 from Battlebots. Well, I guess we know now which direction they went ;-) Aside from all of that we really can't say much. If it all goes well then we'll shoot a whole season. Me personally, I am nervous as hell because I feel like a mental pygmy compared to some of you guys here so please take it easy on me :-p" |
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