Over th last week, the Rotary Science Forum, involving hundreds of year 12 and 13 students from around the country, have been visiting various universities around Auckland to get a taste of what university is like and where research is going in the fields of Science and Technology. AURA has been on hand to help out at the Robotics Research …
Close-up: Bravo v1.0
Interested in seeing what our robots look up close up? Here are some of the mechanisms and systems that we’ve designed for our Bravo robot to make it all work! [photoxhibit=3]
Team Update
We adopted a new team structure, which means that we have two sub-teams (Bravo and Zulu) working on one robot each, along with a support team (Sierra) on the side. This does not mean that the two teams are exclusive – they will be working together to produce two complementary robots that will win! The exec also met and elected Chris (as …
End of January Update
As you can probably see from our photos, we’ve started building. In fact, we finished our first prototype in the space of a week, and have a fully functional robot that has already seen some public action at the New Zealand Rotary Science Forum. We are very grateful for the support of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at …
Build Session Photos
Our team hard at work! This is during our first week of build, after we got our parts in mid-January. [photoxhibit=2]
Kristin Invitational 11/2010 Results
All of the results from the Kristin Invitational Scrimmage held on 27/11/2010 at Kristin School in one handy package! Kristin Invitational Results
Competitive Position Report
From AGM held 5/01/2011 We have entered into an agreement with the University of Auckland’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering which has allowed us to acquire the parts for one Vex robot under a lease-loan system (meaning that the ECE dept will own the equipment but allow us to use it). We have also been allocated working and storage …