27: The Best Thing You Can Do
March 27, 2018Shownotes
The future of driving, the future of robot combat, and an examination of our experiences with depression.
- Pre-show waffle
- Tray with feet
- Note to self: set up Amazon Affiliate link…
- Tray with feet
- Autonomous cars
- Robot or Not?
- Uber crash - for those who have been living under a rock
- STUDIES!!
- How a driverless car sees the road (ft. a rogue duck)
- Correction: Google’s cars are currently maxxing out at Level 4 autonomy: Level 5 requires the ability to go anywhere whereas the current generation of car can only drive on pre-mapped roads.
- Battlebots
- Essentially confirmed entrants
- Chomp
- Level 1 autonomy
- Hammer test - now with ___% more wobble
- Bronco
- Lucky
- SubZero
- Minotaur
- Bombshell
- Tombstone
- Gigabyte (ft. unsafe testing practices)
- Red Devil
- Hypershock
- Yeti
- Team Danby: Predator
- More old Biteforce than Overhaul
- Team Tauron/DRT: Monsoon
- “Let’s move onto robots - I know what I’m talking about with those” (Ryan, 2018)
- Team Nebula: Vanquish
- Team PCP: Petunia
- Multiple teams: Reality
- “My robot knowledge is really letting me down today” (Also Ryan, 2018)
- Oh Yes Robotics: End Game
- HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE
- Not mentioend but highly noteworthy: Team Toad entering a new machine, Hypothermia
- Chomp
- Full list of confirmed entries on reddit or on Google docs
- Essentially confirmed entrants
- King of Bots 1.5 (This is Fighting Robots)
- Blue
- Megabyte
- Vulcan
- Great White
- An Ellis Ware heavyweight
- CJ
- Tanshe
- Weber
- Griffon
- Thunder & Lightning
- Unknown returning team
- Snake
- Grill Judge/Two BBQ
- Sabre
- Specrte
- 008
- Formula
- Tungsten
- Fango
- Breaker Box
- Bonesaw
SAT’arnSaturn- Dragon King
- Bonfire
- Full list of confirmed entries on reddit or on Google docs
- Depression & anxiety
- Sam’s ‘year of health’
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Resources
- Gratuitous dog video
