Last night our Lego Mindstorms robot “Robit” somehow managed to win the Robot Sumo competition at the GOTO conference in Copenhagen! (here’s also an article in Mälarö Tidning)
Pretty frickin’ amazing considering that this was a big software development conference with lots of super-experienced developers competing, and our robot was mostly built by two kids – David and Jenny Kniberg (11yrs and 10yrs old) – the only kids at the conference. Their robot didn’t just win once – it outmaneuvered and outwrestled the competing robots in every match!
Here’s the final, Robit to the left:
So how could a newbie team win the competition so decisively?