Dry Ice Loophole Makes Total Mockery Of Robotics Competition

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mattstaff
Mar 30, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

There's something innately fascinating about seeing various human beings manage to make things in this crazy thing called "life" work, that look totally dumb when considered at surface level. 

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    Font - What is the funniest loophole you have ever seen? Kevin Yue, studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology When I was in school, they held a robotics competition. It was pretty simple, conceptually. You had to make a firefighting robot. It would have to navigate a maze, find a candle and put it out (fully automated, no remote control). I can't remember the exact size but I think the robot had to be smaller than 1 foot in length, width, and height.
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    Font - Scoring was as follows. You start with your time (how long it takes to search every room and put out the candle), and get deductions (bonus points) if your robot: • Put out the candle with anything other than a fan (water, for instance) • Searched every room, didn't just stop at the one with the candle
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    Sky - • Could separate into parts to search rooms in parallel • Operated on very little code (there were a few benchmarks for this) I entered a block of dry ice:
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    Glasses
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    Font - It basically just had a spring-powered hammer to shatter it into little pieces when the start timer went (so that it would evaporate faster)
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    Font - In seconds the entire maze was filled with a white fog and the candle was definitely out. I had the fastest time by a landslide even before you counted my deductions: • Didn't use a fan? Check • Search every room? Check. • Separate into parts to put out fires in parallel? Check
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    Outerwear - I think I could've been the only person in history to ever win a robotics competition without writing a single line of code or soldering a single wire. But alas, the judges disqualified me by unanimous vote. WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME? I'M RIGHT.
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