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Robot design

The following robot was designed using lego mindstroms NXT pieces and a costum pic microcontroller. It was designed to compete in a class contest where it competed the required task in the least amount of time while moving out of the inner circle. We decided to base our design with reactive intelligence. More information on the contest and our design can be found in this report.

The video below shows Rodney in action: