Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest

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Students robots in this years 2.007 contest held at MIT competed in performing beaver-like tasks including knocking down pool noodle trees and dumping them in a ping-pong ball river to score points. Photo Donna Coveney
Students robots in this year's 2.007 contest held at MIT competed in performing beaver-like tasks, including knocking down pool noodle 'trees' and dumping them in a ping-pong ball 'river,' to score points. Photo / Donna Coveney

Robots designed to toss pool-noodle trees into a river of ping-pong balls ruled over competitors focused on rescuing fuzzy toy beavers in this year's 2.007 contest, "Da (yes) MIT, or Save the Baby Beavers," held on Thursday, May 8, in the Johnson Athletic Center at MIT.


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