ROBOTIC FUN: Undergraduate seniors in Prof Michael Gennert's lab lifting the top cover from their amphibious robot "Walrus" at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, Massachusetts: A hefty robot designed for search-and-rescue and a spindly four-legged rival that bounds along on hydraulic limbs will face off next month along with more than a dozen other entrants in the debut Vecna Robot Sprint Challenge outside Boston.
The robots, designed by student teams at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will be racing a lineup ranging from commercial available machines weighing hundreds of pounds to remote control cars jerry-rigged by teenage hobbyists.
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