Stout tech education students learn collaboration in building, competing with battle bots

13 Dec 2021


News, Dunn County

Simple plywood boxes, Plexiglass glued together and even hot pink duct tape became the materials to create robots at a University of Wisconsin-Stout class as students cheered each other on and competed for the bragging rights of having their bot survive in the competition ring.

Students in Kevin Dietsche’s Mechatronics class built and programmed the sumo bots and competed on Dec. 2 in a 3-foot diameter elevated ring. Bots that became disabled or were pushed out of the circle lost.

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