{"id":844,"date":"2012-09-30T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=844"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:27:55","slug":"swarm-robot-competition-winners-announced-at-world-maker-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/09\/swarm-robot-competition-winners-announced-at-world-maker-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarm Robot competition winners announced at World Maker Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/udlocal1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Xinchejian-SwarmRobots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-841\" title=\"Xinchejian SwarmRobots\" src=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/udlocal1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Xinchejian-SwarmRobots-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Xinchejian SwarmRobots\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Xinchejian-SwarmRobots-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Xinchejian-SwarmRobots.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The fantastic capability of the <a title=\"Xinchejian SwarmRobot competition entry\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xinchejian.com\/wiki\/Swarm_robots\/AFRON_$10_competition\">XinCheJian SwarmRobots<\/a> has been recognised with 2nd placing in the AFRON $10 robot competition Traditional (Roaming) category. The announcement made at World Maker Faire today (via <a title=\"Wired - AFRON winners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2012\/09\/afron-winners\/\">Wired<\/a>) awarded first place to Harvard&#8217;s research group and third place by to MIT University. XinCheJian&#8217;s high placing against such prestigious competition highlights just how good XinCheJian&#8217;s SwarmRobots are!<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Xinchejian SwarmRobot competition entry\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xinchejian.com\/wiki\/Swarm_robots\/AFRON_$10_competition\">SwarmRobots<\/a> are still under rapid development with work progressing on coding object detection and inter-robot communications using the already developed InfraRed shield. Work is also underway on wireless charging and a Atmel 32u4 version. It has been a lot of fun to be part of this team as can be seen in these <a title=\"XinCheJian SwarmRobot videos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soku.com\/search_video\/q_spanner888\">videos<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fantastic capability of the XinCheJian SwarmRobots has been recognised with 2nd placing in the AFRON $10 robot competition Traditional (Roaming) category. The announcement made at World Maker Faire today (via Wired) awarded first place to Harvard&#8217;s research group and third place by to MIT University. XinCheJian&#8217;s high placing against such prestigious competition highlights just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/09\/swarm-robot-competition-winners-announced-at-world-maker-faire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swarm Robot competition winners announced at World Maker Faire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,13],"tags":[36,63,69],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-open-source","tag-competition","tag-robot","tag-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}