Lab coats and pictures

I'm not going to lie, Georgia Tech's robot is pretty awesome. All of the parts were custom made by their mechanical engineer, except for the rubber tracks, which came from a vintage RC car and are not made anymore. We were looking for rubber tracks, but could never find them. Blast!
They claim that their robot was inspired by Pac-Man, and they can A) pick up blocks while moving, B) sort blocks based on their value, and C) kick out blocks that they don't want. Theoretically, if they were fast enough, they could collect all of the blocks on the field and hold them until the very end of the time limit, preventing the other robot from getting them. Thankfully, at least we're faster than them.

AND THEY'RE ALL WEARING LAB COATS!

They're designing the competition next year, so I imagine it'll be a doozie.

We're still refining the robot. At this point, we're just testing over and over to make sure that it's as unlikely to fail as possible. Last we heard, only 20 or so teams of the 41 originally signed up for competition have qualified (which means fitting within the size constraints and moving out of the home base). This room is much emptier than we thought it would be. Oh well, less competition for us!

I've put pictures up in a public Picasa album. There aren't that many pictures, and even fewer good pictures, but I'll put more up as the weekend goes on.
Here's the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/Ted.Copeland/SECON2008

Thanks for the support and the comments!