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The Killer UniKorns wrapped up a successful year. Being our first year, we had a steep learning curve at the beginning of first semester. We ...

The ILLINIhilation Robotics Team has completed another successful season this year. Although our team was slightly behind schedule in the building of the robot, we ...

The Mechabytes had a great first year of competition. For the majority of the season, we were behind schedule, but our members pulled together in ...

It's time for the Transfarmers to wrap up a fun and successful year. This year we worked hard to be ahead of schedule and had ...

MuTan(Clan), as the senior MRDC team, designed a new and radical robot. Considerably more compact than the past robots we have designed, this robot had ...

The junior comobotics team had a great season building The Kraken. The Kraken is a full body spinner, the only of its kind in our ...

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Links for the Robobrawl livestreams are up! The actual streams will take place Friday, 9AM-4PM and Saturday, 9AM-3PM. Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJQ8MbR7E24 Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQurloK424 ...

The Transfarmers are off to a great start to our build season. We have already finished our drivetrain and created a prototype electrical board for ...

Registration for the 2017 Robobrawl is now active! Fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/xHJEwS39E2pvtXHA3 and tshephe2@illinois.edu will contact you about where to mail the $50 deposit ...

With just one semester left in our iRobotics careers, MuTan(Clan) is preparing for the Midwestern Robotics Design Competition in style! With our new plate design, ...

The Junior Combotics team has been working hard to redesign their robot. After pivoting halfway through the semester to a full body spinner, we have ...

The Transfarmers have finished the semester strong with a finalized Cad model of our drivetrain and concepts for each of our manipulators. Our drivetrain is ...

The senior combotics team, AlphaAF, have finalized the design of their drumbot. The CAD model is near completion and materials have been purchased. Drivetrain testing ...

The Killer UniKorns worked to finish up all of the details on our bot design before the end of the semester. We intend to finish ...

The Illinihilation team wrapped up the fall semester with a final team meeting to discuss the designs for the soccer ball intake and output. From ...

The Mechabytes meet before we left for break to briefly go over our plans to complete the model of the drive train before we came ...

The Mechabytes team had another meeting just before finals started. We took time to go over the updated rules and field drawings. Afterwards, we quickly ...

iRobotics volunteered at the FIRST Lego League Qualifier held at Loomis Laboratory on December 3, 2016. iRobotics had members as referees and volunteers. There were ...

On November 17th, 2016, iRobotics was able to present to a group of ~100 elementary school students about robotics at their Science Fair! This is ...

iRobotics ran a FIRST Lego League Scrimmage on Saturday 11/12/2016 on the University of Illinois campus. We had two competition tables and one practice table ...

Team Captains worked hard this week prepping our space for build season. The ESPL is the only build space and machine shop access for 9 ...

iRobotics took the MechSE Open House by storm! We had the opportunity to show off all of our hard work to wide eyed prospective students ...

iRobotics played paintball at Saltfork this past Saturday. Thank you to everyone that came out to it and I hope you had a great time ...

The ILLINIhilation team just had another meeting, this time to plan out the tasks and deadlines for the team leading up to competition. We are ...

We are pleased to announce an exciting new feature for the 2017 Robobrawl: livestreaming! You would not expect that one of these security cameras would ...

The rules for Robobrawl 2017 have been published and can be found at http://irobotics.illinois.edu/teams/robobrawl/. If you have any questions, contact Tor Shepherd at tshephe2@illinois.edu ...

The combotics teams are starting the year strong! The planned bots are: Killer UniKorns (freshman team): Drumbot Fully Torqued (sophomore team): Horizontal Spinner Dusk til ...

On Tuesday of this week, iRobotics went to Franklin Middle School's STEM classroom, continuing our outreach efforts at Franklin from last year. Students worked in ...

iRobotics had its first bar crawl of the school year. Thank you to everyone that showed up to it, I hope you had a good ...

We have just finished the second electronics workshop of the three part series. So far, members have learned how to write a program in C# ...

MuTan(Clan) is starting out strong for our senior year! With plans to improve our mechanical design, motor output, and better wireless communication systems, we look ...

VEX is moving along nicely, with the robot already about 2/3 of the way done, and coding running close behind! We've had great turnout so ...

Recently we had our October GM with great turnout, apparently almost 130 people where there. This is a record high for the iRobotics GMs this ...

The transfarmers have been getting ready for our second year by cleaning our space in the ESPL and working on our robot from the previous ...

The ILLINIhilation team just had its first team meeting to talk team logistics, explain the things we do know about this season's competition, and start ...

Welcome to the next iRobotics season! The ILLINIhilation team is getting ready for the upcoming MRDC season by first cleaning up our ESPL area and ...

This is a little late but here it goes. These past 4 years have been quite a wild ride for EVO Robotics. Pushing the boundaries ...

MuTan(Clan) and Transfarmers duked it out in the Engineering Dodgeball Tournament hosted by iRobotics, SWE, and OSTEM ...

Although this post is a tad late, MuTan(Clan) finally had our final team meeting to conclude this season. While not performing as well as we ...

Thanks to all the members who showed up for the bowling event last week! We had a lot of fun despite our apparent lack of ...

The competition is over, and despite many problems, the sophomore MRDC team was able to hold strong, pushing into the final round and receiving 4th ...

After many long days in the ESPL, the senior battlebot is finally complete! We have named the bot "Who do you know here?" in honor ...

We're about 2 weeks out from competition now, and the ball is rolling. Checkout some new shots of our recent paint job and our Jump ...

MuTan has finished welding our entire frame together, and have painted it a stunning glossy black. We have also painted many of our other components ...

Build for the MuTan(Clan)! Our mechanical team has been working has been working hard in the past few weeks designing and preparing parts for our ...

It's been a while since our last update, but we've been hard at work. On the mechanical side of things, EVO's unveiling a new design ...

Mutan has completely disassembled all of its old frame and has cut out all of the aluminum tubing for the new frame( as seen in ...

With the MRDC competition approaching quickly, it's time for the ILLINIhilation's previous robot to retire from duty. Our build and electrical sub-teams disassembled the robot's ...

The senior battlebots team is off to a great start this year, with our first meeting earlier this week! The entire frame has been waterjet ...

The sophomore combotics team had their first build meeting this Saturday. The frame is fitting together, and we are nearly done with making the rest ...

A big thanks to everyone who visited us today at the RSO Involvement Fair today! I personally met a large number of prospective new members ...

The Junior Combotics Team, AlphaAF, rallied to finish cutting and welding the arena retaining wall this past week. This is one of many teams working ...

The rule set for the 2016 Robobrawl competition is up! Please read it in its completeness if you plan on competing. If you have any ...

This week, iRobotics helped out at Franklin Middle School, continuing our outreach efforts there from last year. Students worked in partners and teams to build ...

iRobotics is now hosting office hours! Please feel free to drop in for any exec member's office hours ...

The Sophomore MRDC team just had its first electrical and pneumatic systems sub-team meeting. We discussed an overview of the electronic system for the robot, ...

Team ILLINIhilation had their first programming meeting of the semester on Nov 8, Sunday. We went through the code base from last semester getting to ...

View post on imgur.com With the release of this season's MRDC rules, ILLINIhilation is now in full design mode. We just finished our first design ...

With the imminent game release, MuTan(Clan) held a general meeting to discuss our progress and plans for the future. With approximately ...

This week, iRobotics helped out at Edison Middle School, continuing our outreach efforts there from last year. Students worked in partners and teams to build ...

Our recent trip to Saltfork Paintball had a great turnout! Battles were fought, bruises were earned, and we all lined up like crazy people to ...

After some rough last minute controls issues during our sophomore season, MuTan has begun work on our controls testing board early ...

On Friday, October 9th, iRobotics presented at the MechSE Open House in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. We brought a number of Combots and MRDC bots ...

On October 6th, we had our first GM of the year. We packed the room with well over 100 members! Team captains presented their plans ...

Thanks to everyone who showed up to the first Senior Combotics meeting yesterday, it already looks like we are in for a great season! We ...

The sophomore MRDC team had their first meeting! Thank you for all of those who came on a Sunday afternoon to the meeting. We discussed ...

The MRDC Freshman Team just had their first meeting! Hosted by the ILLINIhilation Team, we introduced the competition and the team structure to the new ...

Thanks to everyone who came out for the opening BBQ, we had a great crowd, good food, and a lot of ultimate frisbee! Around 30 ...

This year has gotten of to an amazing start with this year's recruiting and info session. After receiving nearly 900 new signups at quad day ...

Today we were delighted to host Paul Morabito, Automation Team Leader, speaking on safety and how Dow uses robotics. Thank you to everyone who attended ...

This week, iRobotics helped out at Edison Middle School, a newcomer to the iRobotics Outreach family. Students worked in partners and teams to build towers ...

Huge thank you to Shunsuke Okubo from Ford for speaking on Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Engineering today! It was a really interesting talk and we're ...

This semester's demo day was a blast! We set up a mock JSDC field and got a chance to tell some of our sponsors how ...

2015 was the first year for the Combotics Robobrawl and the first time that Combotics has had eight teams. Previously, we operated in a two-team ...

This past season has been one of tremendous growth for EVO Robotics. Since this was a brand new game it required a brand new strategy ...

iRobotics continued its involvement in the local community with more STEM outreach at Jefferson Middle School. This time, students were instructed to construct a device ...

iRobotics continued its encouragement of STEM in the local community at Franklin Middle School! Students had to work together in teams to build a tower ...

We are proud to announce that for the first time in iRobotics' history, our senior JSDC team, the Brobots, managed to get first place in ...

It’s been an awesome season for ILLINIhilation! Despite a very low number of members actively participating on the team, and major issues with some of ...

Today, despite all odds, we of the MuTan(Clan) emerged on top (well slightly down and to left, but close enough). After suffering numerous setbacks like ...

With only a few days left, we of the MuTan(Clan) are putting our noses to the grind stone. As of tonight, our robot is nearly ...

The week of Engineering Open House is here! Now it is a time crunch to get our robot ready for competition. ILLINIhilation has been working ...

I hope you all haven't forgotten about us. EVO Robotics is back in in action gearing up for this year's JSDC Competition ...

We have just concluded our second and final resume review/mock interview session of the academic year! Best of luck to everyone hitting the career fair ...

We hosted Akuna Capital for a tech talk this past Thursday, 1/29, and had a terrific turnout! Ken Taylor gave a very interesting talk on ...

The first general meeting of 2015 will be held on Tuesday, February 3rd beginning at 7 pm in Grainger Auditorium in ECEB. We welcome all ...

The MuTan(Clan) is an all sophomore team that competes in the annual Jerry Sanders Design Competition. This past semester marked the beginning of our second ...

Come one, come all to the Combotics Robobrawl! Put your mechanical prowess to the test as you compete in 1v1 matches against your peers. This ...

iRobotics members went out to Next Generation school on November 19th, 2014 to Co-Host a Family Engineering Night with PTS & NOBE Students and their ...

For our final middle school outreach event of the semester, we went to Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School on December 4, 2014 to do a hands-on ...

iRobotics hosted it's 2nd Annual FLL scrimmage for local teams to come and practice their robot on the field as well as practice their Core ...

iRobotics members went out to Franklin Middle School on November 14th, 2014 to do a hands on STEM Activity. The students were split into groups ...

This past Wednesday was our second Demo Day, held at the John Deere Pavilion. We had a good number of iRobotics sponsors and supporters come ...

iRobotics members traveled to Jefferson Middle School in Champaign to work with kids on October 28, 2014. We worked with the kids to build towers ...

Thanks for coming down to the C# Workshop! Resources I used: Slides XAML Notes C# Notes If you have any questions or feedback, feel free ...

Thanks everyone for coming down to our October General Meeting! Everyone who attended will get one Active Memebership point. Slides ...

Thanks for coming down to the JSDC Workshop! Slides are posted here: 1) JSDC Slides 2) Drive Train Slides 3) Omni/swerve drive train ...

Amid the Engineering Employment Expo and ECS Career Fair this month, we've had 2 rounds of resume reviews and mock interviews. We had a solid ...