Battle of the bots
Students working on robot
Members of the University of Minnesota Robotics team Laura Irvine, Nick Schatz, and Matt Tlachac are gearing up for a different kind of college basketball competition—Land O’Lakes Bot Shot.

University robotics team to compete in Land O’Lakes college competition

With the 2019 men’s college basketball championships heading to Minneapolis in April, everyone has basketball on their minds. But, members of the University of Minnesota Robotics team are gearing up for a different kind of basketball competition—Land O’Lakes Bot Shot.

The competition challenges students to design and build a robot that can shoot basketballs, pitting collegiate robotics teams against each other for the chance to win a $10,000 prize. After a virtual qualifying round in which the students will showcase their robot’s abilities to shoot from different areas on the court, judges will choose four finalist teams to compete in a live game of H-O-R-S-E in Minneapolis on Sunday, April 7.

Read more about the U of M Robotics team, the Bot Shot Contest and watch a highlight video in the College of Science and Engineering article.

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