Team Tucker Balch . Gary Boone . Tom Collins . David Huggins Doug MacKenzie. The AAAI provided a generous grant to help the team travel to Seattle.
Movies Click above to see more pictures, and videotape from the competition.
The small robots, which look like miniature tanks, were programmed to clean up an office littered with soda cans, coffee cups and wads of paper. The group from Georgia Tech won the event by collecting more trash in ten minutes than any other team's robot. The first task involved navigating an office using an electronic map. The other was to clean up an office littered with soda cans, coffee cups, and crumpled paper. The robots sequence from one behavior to another as they accomplish their task of gathering trash.