Row, Row, Row Your Robot

<b> by Anthony Falco</b>Research students from Peterhouse College in Cambridge build a “row-bot” to mimic the actions of a college rower.The rowing robot uses two electric motors to move along a horizontal track. The movement controls the oars and allows the robot to “feather” and “square” like a real rower. It took the students about eight months to design and cost at least $650 in parts, but the researchers hope other schools will create their own as well, in order to compete.According to Dr. Andre Rosendo, who oversaw the making of the row-bot but hasn’t taken credit for the pun, the student-led project “aims to take the longstanding Cantabrigian rowing tradition to the next level of automation while fomenting engineering skills among its students.”
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