Students enjoyed Kismet Cafe while partaking in various field day activities. The Purple team had a clean sweep, winning 1st place in both sword-fighting and the-tennis-court-is-lava.

Esteemed Post Dog Ruby (from ARTS lab) and her new sibling Doodi (also from ARTS lab) managed to make an appearance, to the delight of the grad students.

This brings the total scores in the Crystal Cup competition to:

White – 94 points (31 for the picnic)
Purple – 114 points (48 for the picnic)
Blue – 72 points (19 for the picnic)

The teams consist of:
White – HeRo, ReNeu, Robin, RPL, SWARM
Purple – AMRL, ARTS, Center for Autonomy, CLeAR, HCRL, MERGe
Blue – CNBI, LARG, LWR, NRG, SAHM

Teams win points for the Crystal Cup through event attendance and participation, such as winning the field day activities.

This year’s robot costume competition was a graveyard smash (*they did the mash–they did the monster mash*). Students dressed their robots in festive outfits and submitted their creations to our esteemed panel of judges (including ME Chair Don Siegal, AHG Facilities Manager Zarko Vukovich, and Robotics Engineer Nikunj Parmar).

The winners are:

 1st Place – HeRo Lab’s Da Vinci Research Kit as General Grievous
 2nd Place – ARTS Lab’s KUKA Arm as a dragon
 3rd Place (Tie) – NRG’s Philbart as the Toy Story Babyface & HCRL’s Unitree Go1 as Moo Deng
 People’s Choice Award – HeRo Lab’s Da Vinci Research Kit as General Grievous
 Undergraduate Winners – ECLAIR’s UFactory lite 6 as The Addams Family Thing

This brings the total scores in the Crystal Cup competition to:

White – 63 points (38 for Robot Halloween)
Purple – 66 points (43 for Robot Halloween)
Blue – 53 points (45 for Robot Halloween)

The teams consist of:
White – HeRo, ReNeu, Robin, RPL, SWARM
Purple – AMRL, ARTS, Center for Autonomy, CLeAR, HCRL, MERGe
Blue – CNBI, LARG, LWR, NRG, SAHM

Teams win points for the Crystal Cup through event attendance and participation, such as winning the costume competition.