Competition 2012
“Build-Bots” – Block-Stacking Robots
12th Annual UBC Engineering Physics 253 Competition: Introduction Video
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Presented By: UBC Engineering Physics |
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Competition Sponsors:Newark Electronics / element14 Agilent Technologies |
 
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Competition Day Details and Results
Congratulations to our winners:
1st place – Frank the Tank – Nikita Mouline, Nicholas Reeves, Evan Cook, TrevorUittenbosch
2nd place – Summer Lovin’ – Talon Chandler, Michael Haaf, Tavis Pederson, Jesse Swanson
3rd place – Nostacks – Firat Nurozler, Nolan Ohmart, Kelvin Poon Feng, Sean Vanbergen
Media coverage for the day:
Date and Time
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Thurs August 2nd, 2012
10am – noon |
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Hennings Building, Room 2001961 East Mall (click here for parking anddirections) |
Overview
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60 second-year students in UBC Engineering Physics course go head-to-head with their autonomous block-stacking robots. |
| Registration
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No registration required. However, if bringing a group of 4 or more, please contact Jon Nakane for further details about attending the event. |
The 12th Annual UBC Engineering Physics Robot Competition pits 15 student teams’ robots that must grab and place wooden blocks into stacks of up to five high without any human control.
At UBC Engineering Physics’ in-house prototyping facility, the students use electronics tools, mechanical fabrication devices and computer programs to design and build a fully functional, autonomous “Build-bot” prototype within five weeks.
Students have access to tools common to the robotics industry, including 3-D printing to manufacture critical plastic pieces for their robots, laser cutting to fabricate structures in plastic and wood and waterjet cutting to shape sheet metal for the robot body.
Since 2001, more than 500 UBC Engineering Physics students have taken this hands-on prototyping challenge as part of their academic program with previous competitions such as Rescue-bots, Hockey-bots, Doctor-bots and Police-Bots.
Team Reports and Videos
A selection of videos and photos can be found here: ENPH 253 – team photos and videos (Google Drive)
1 BlockBuster
2 R.O.B. the Builder
3 Frank the Tank
4 Wall-E
5 Scorpio
6 TINAH Turner
7 Stack City
8 Babel-Bot
9 Summer Lovin’
10 NyanBot
11 Coriolanus
12 Nostacks
13 LiPo Suction
14 Occam’s Robot
15 Spot
Competition Rules
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