Robotics competition preps UNK students for Midwest symposium

WHAT: UNK Robotics Competition

ABOUT: Students in the Artificial Intelligence class at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will use robots they’ve built and programmed, and go up against each other in a golf competition. The objective of the contest is to design an autonomous robot that can play miniature golf after “looking at” – or running upon – a map of the hole. The event is a tune up for the annual Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS) at The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse April 7-8.

HOSTED BY: Computer Science & Information Technology Department, College of Natural and Social Sciences

TIME: 11:15 a.m.

DATE: Friday, March 31

PLACE: UNK Otto B. Olsen building, Room 220

CONTACT: Sherri Harms, Chair Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, 308.865.8123, harmssk@unk.edu

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