MASLab: The Grim Gripper
January 2004
Alex Crumlin, James Xin Sun, Vincent Yeung, and I teamed up as the Little Guys in MASLab -- a grueling robotics competition. Equipped with an onboard Geode CPU, a web camera controlled by vision-processing algorithms, IR sensors, touch sensors, a servo-actuated gate and ramp, and a powerful gripper, our autonomous Grim Gripper detected and grabbed red balls and green tower in a large playing field and released the balls into a yellow mousehole. Our robot nabbed us the prestigious MASLab Engineering Award and a mention in MIT's newspaper, The Tech.
