ACE’s Combotics Battalion

ACE members are introduced to the more advanced aspects of materials science and engineering as the demands of combat robotics deem necessary: metal fabrication, enhanced plastics to 3D-print, mechanical stresses via melee impacts. The presence of competition ranging from local to international scales necessitate greater standards of computer-aided design, including simulations for stress-testing.

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Like real-life combat sports, combotics are divided into various weight class divisions incoming ACE project members with a 1-lb ‘antweight’ to design, fabricate, test, and prepare for in-house tournaments with neighboring teams. to other universities or local events. Subsequent completions of the antweight grants promotion to larger weight classes: 3-lb ‘beetleweight’ , 12-lb ‘hobbyweight’, and the pinnacle 250-lb ‘heavyweight’ to span from local events, college derbies, or to international, television show-running tournaments like Battlebots.