MAI Cup
Starting into season 2023/2024
Today it all kicked off with all the teams being assigned. We’re excited for everything that lies ahead! (author: Annalena)
MAI Cup: Finals
The second season of the MAI Cup came to a thrilling end! Several teams joined the competition and built exceptional robots. Take a look at just a few of them: The winning robot was a Team MAI robot that played several beautiful tennis matches: We hope to see you all … Weiterlesen …
MAI Cup: Building a Basic Bot
We recently started building a basic casing for our bot, so we could actually build the final adjusted arm versions. We just took a wooden plate and mounted four wooden bars on it. We’ll later add a second stage on it, and carve out some holes for wheels, cables, arms, … Weiterlesen …
MAI Cup: Building of Deployable Arms
We recently constructed a deployable arm for our robot that is supposed to push tennis balls. It’s not yet adjusted to the bot’s dimensions and is only meant to improve the mechanism. The plan to make the arm extend with motors is to either use a rack and pinion or … Weiterlesen …
MAI Cup: Strategy
Our overly simple strategy is to start each round by maintaining the minimum size of 50x50x50cm and then extending arms across the entire playing field. After waiting for the time to almost be over, we’ll move straight forward to push all the balls (including those shot over by the opponents) … Weiterlesen …