This picture shows entrants in this twelvemonth ’s FIRST ( For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology ) Breakaway match . Teams of ambitious high schooling kids build automaton to compete in what ’s basically the American Gladiator adaptation of soccer . It ’s pretty astonishing .
The kid get six weeks to build a golem that can contend in this disturbed secret plan ( weird eighty - elan explanation of the gamehere ): Their robots have to either traverse bumps or duck’s egg through tunnels , hold their nets , kick association football clump into their opposing robots ( two teams of three robots each ) nets , and then for bonus points , climb and hang onto a tower in the closing minute of a match . It ’s insanely challenging , and these kids actually do it . The NYC regional event terminate today . [ FIRSTviaDVICE ]
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