June. 10—The robots in Carlotta Berry’s Rose-Hulman robotics program certainly don’t look capable of conquering the planet and becoming our overlords, but give them some time.
Berry and two of the Institute of Technology’s students, Murari Srinivasan and Josiah McGee, are teaching their diminutive contraptions how to navigate and even map out their terrains.
“They’re both learning about advanced robot behaviors as well as controls,” explained Berry. Srinivasan’s creation, crafted from programming that the University of Michigan shared with Rose-Hulman, is “the smartest robot in the room right now,” Berry said.
