What Did We Do On Our Summer Vacation? If We Told You We’d Have To Kill You!

Two S&T grad students working Boeing's Phantom Works this summer have flown in to help Aluminator figure out its coding issues. Ryan Meuth and Paul Robinette, 'bot team veterans both, took the overnight flight from Seattle to help work out some stubborn electronic issues. Both are working on a program that will allow perhaps hundreds of robots to “swarm” an objective without the help of an on-the-ground operator used on the Predator-style drones. It is kinda hush-hush, but we can let on that it involves programming toy helicopters to do things the manufacturer never intended.

There's just no telling where a S&T education will take you.