Robot info

Builder info

Robot:

Minotaur

Builder:

Marco Antonio Meggiolaro

Type:

Drum spinner

Job:

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)

Team:

RioBotz

Marco Antonio Meggiolaro (Captain), Daniel Freitas (Driver), Gabriel Barsi (Electronics), Carlos Junior (Electronics), Rodrigo Almeida (Mechanics), Rodrigo Nogueira (Fabricator), Marcos Angeli (Electronics)

Years competing:

16 years

Hometown:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Favorite tool:

Dead On Annihilator Superhammer (we call it Zombie Killer)

Favorite robot:

Ava from Ex_Machina

Interesting fact:
In 2009 we controlled our middleweight combat drumbot Touro using our thoughts, with a brain-machine interface we designed and built.

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