A big thank you to everyone who dropped by our Ice Cream Social earlier this month. The kitchen was buzzing with people creating some seriously amazing sundaes.
It was so cool to see the kitchen packed with everyone chatting, laughing, digging into ice cream and piling on the toppings, an trying to fill out their social bingo cards. Thanks so much for coming out and making it a great event.
TRGS hosted some very cool events this Spring: a picnic, egg hunt, and ice cream social!
For the picnic, Crystal Cup teams competed in cornhole and a paper airplane extravaganza.
Crystal Cup teams raced to collect the most eggs hidden around AHG.
Finally, the Crystal Cup winners were announced at an Ice Cream Social! Congrats to the Purple Team (AMRL, ARTS, Center for Autonomy, CLeAR, HCRL, MERGe) for winning the first ever Crystal Cup.
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.
Students from South Labs narrowly defeated students from the North Labs on April 13th. The results for each of the activities are listed below:
Join us next year for another showdown!
TRGS hosted a demo on computer vision for UT’s STEM Girl Day! There were many children (and parents) who came by to learn about the use of computer vision with robots. Participants could hold objects up to a webcam and see if the Python algorithm correctly identified the items.
