Carnegie Mellon University | CMU: When a young Christopher Hardouin (E'00,'01) dreamed he'd one day work with robots, he could never have imagined his latest adventure. As a contestant on "Robot Combat League," Syfy channel's new reality show premiering Feb 26th, the Carnegie Mellon University alumnus did battle with state-of-the-art, humanoid behemoths.
"It was so exciting," Hardouin said of the five-week shoot. "It was an adventure — battling these 1,000-pound, eight-foot tall, dangerous-as-heck robots and strategizing how we were going to fight. Are we going to take the offensive, punch more? What an incredible experience."
2 comments:
This is so cool. What a great concept for a show. Build 12 state of the art, giant fighting robots, and pit them against each other using the finest engineers and robotics experts we can find. The first episode is on syfy.com and it's really good, although Hardouin doesnt get his hands too dirty this episode, I'm looking forward to watching his first fight.
Robotics are awesome and it's fantastic that we go to a school with a state of the art robotics program. I'm inspired by the fact that Hardouin did plays as well as robotics while at CMU. One day I would like to get in to robotics.
I like that robots are getting used as entertainment and that engineering is seen as a valued skill that is cool and not just "nerdy". I don't like that some of the smartest people in the world are putting their time and (i assume lot of money) in to building robots who's only purpose is physical violence against other robots. It seems wasteful when robotics has so many more important things it could be helping with. The first robotics challenge is a much better example of robots being put in to use as entertainment and to make their creators look good, but with more constructive goals in mind.
Oh well I guess that's just TV these days...
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