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RoboGames is the original fighting robot battleground. In this pod, vc2 producer Eddie Codel joins San Fancisco State's team Beer Bash as they modify a keg to make their bot, travel to the competition and take on other teams for RoboGames glory.

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  relsserb
- What if it shot beer at the other bots, thus inebriating them to death
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  InfamouzBlue
- COOL
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  derk
- I just hope that flame-throwing keg still has a setting for Guinness!
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  redant12
- needs a bit of liquid oxygen in the flame if you ask me.
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  2muchinfo
- Anyone else remember when comedy central had show like this.
- 1 year ago
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  Luv_Jam
- yeah definitely sweat, I believe the show is call "robot wars", I can't really remembered. But that didn't ever seem like fun, everyone always gets so angry and it's nothing like what this pod shows. there are definitely some more sweet fights but, like I said, no fun at all, unless you win the big hexagonal nut.
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  reconmom
- Very good use of your free time. Looks like so much fun.
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  denport
- Cool. i liked to watch these games on tv. All the hard work involved to make the robots., and the friendly atmosphere.
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  ekai
- Here's the official site for RoboGames, which happens in San Francisco every year. People and bots of all ages come from around the world to compete. Good times!
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  NoGodsNoMasters
- Great pod, heres my question though......the definition of a robot is something that can sense, think, and act.....do these machines do that or are they more like really badass remote control cars?
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  theeel
- NoGodsNoMasters:
  A couple of things:
  1) What definition of robot are you using? You might want to check out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Definitions)
  
  2) What makes you think that these machines do not have sensors and computers in them. Cuz, uh they do.
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  NoGodsNoMasters
- NoGodsNoMasters:
  Ok so I'm guessing you didn't read over the defining characteristics of what a robot is on that link you sent me then did you? If you had you would realize that those 8 points sum down to sense, think, act. The 3 characteristics that I learned about robotics in college where I hold a masters in computer engineering and will be attending Carnegie Mellon University's Institute of Robotics in Pittsburgh for my masters.
  
  Second, I didn't know that it had sensors so that is why I asked. I wasn't putting anyone down. So why don't you chill out hyperdefensive.
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  theeel
- NoGodsNoMasters:
  Sorry about getting too defensive, but it is something I get a LOT. Kicked dog and all.
  And the gist of the WIKI article is that there are more definitions of the word robot than there are roboticists. "There is no one definition of robot which satisfies everyone". The word robot is not a hard, fixed word.
  
  Have fun at CMU, it is a good school.
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  NoGodsNoMasters
- NoGodsNoMasters:
  Always remember something theeel.....when people get on your ass for being a geek......we fuckin took over. This is def. a nerds world now. And the people who are into robotics today will be the Bill Gates of tomorrow because that is where our world is heading.
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  SHAWN_RITTIMAN
- Why is this crap still so appealing to me? Possibly for a guard dogbot?!?
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  jamiep
- Great stuff!
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  legendary
- great sport, love it
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  Denica_Cassandra
- i want one for bad neighbors! ;) fun!
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  smurph25
- Lesson learnt from that pod: If you're building a fighting robot, don't just have a flame thrower as a weapon.
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  ekai
- smurph25:
  "keginess" is everything with Beer Bash.
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