My team's robot was called Bagel Bot
and the whole point with it was
that it had some different food
dispensaries mainly bagels and pizza
because why not and you order it in from
wherever you are and it goes in picks it up and
brings to you. Of course the robot doesn't have any
arms but just goes to the place
if it had arms, pick it up it for you yeah we
dressed it up and everything and it had a little apron
it had a little chef's hat on
it that said Bagel Bot, we made a logo and
everything it was yeah was a real Bagel Bot.
It would schedule really smartly if say
three or four jobs come in at the same time what
would be the most efficient path to take
to then minimize the time spent for all of them
to get their bagel
finally got it
working, it was the best feeling in the world
Our robot was
Lenny, now Lenny wasn't as interesting as
that he was very sort of bare bones I'd say, he only had his normal sort of laser
scanners and stuff like that on him
but that was just because of what we
chose to do with our project other teams,
there was a team which had their robot
look like a Christmas tree I still don't know
why that was the case but it had a lot of
tinsel on it. Why not, it was great, it was
getting closer to Christmas
It did add a little bit of fun the night before
the demos yeah and there's another team
which played Smash Mouth's 'All Star' every
time it bumped into a wall I think it was
there were loads of security bots and
everything like that, so people did get
quite creative with their robots
so our
robot was called Leslie on my team and
we tried to make a waiter robot that would
move between tables and try to check
someone was there, if not lead people to tables and then go
back and forth between a kitchen which is
an area in the room and kind of
simulate how it would actually work and
it ended working quite well we used a Connect
which could tilt the camera to look up and
down depending on different heights of tables
and you really learn a lot about how
you're going to use a robot on how to
use it in a smart way
You do sort of get sentimentally attached to your robot
