Where Steel Meets Science
This spring, an electro-mechanical clan composed of four robots-R. M. S. Dick Roslund, Fenrir, Penguin, and Reaper-went wheel-to-wheel against a bevy of other fantastical devices at one of the nation’s oldest continuing robotics contests, the Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition (JSDC). For members of Illinois Tech Robotics, the notion of robots combating as twenty-first-century Roman gladiators is where steel meets classroom science, head on.