Autonomous bot uses pencil erasers as bumpers

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This “pencil pusher” autonomous sumo robot uses pencil erasers as bumpers when it hits obstacles. We think it might be more effective in “robot wars” if the pencils were sharpened and their orientation was reversed on this bot.

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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen

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