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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