The Robots are Coming!

So what do NASA and Robots and competition have in common?

It has to be another FIRST tournament!

In the “Lunacy” game, robots are designed to pick up 9" game balls and score them in trailers hitched to their opponents’ robots for points during a 2 minute and 15 second match. Additional points are awarded for scoring a special game ball, the Super Cell, in the opponents' trailers during the last 20 seconds of the match. “Lunacy” is played on a low-friction floor, which means teams must contend with the laws of physics.

(This year's game is like driving on the moon and tossing rocks at each other...)

Mark your calendar for March 12-14, 2009 for the Peachtree Regional FIRST tournament (47 teams currently scheduled to compete) at Gwinnett Center and for April 16-18, 2009 for the FIRST Championship (worldwide finals) at the Georgia Dome.

FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
NASA Robotics Alliance Project

(FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen of Segway fame who has a ton of medical inventions including the first insulin pump for diabetics)