Maslab

An Advanced IAP Robotics Competition

Maslab (Mobile Autonomous System Laboratory), also known as 6.186, is a robotics contest open to all MIT students. The contest takes place during MIT's Independent Activities Period and participants earn 6 units of P/F credit and 6 EDPs. Teams of three to four students have less than a month to build and program sophisticated robots which must explore an unknown playing field and perform a series of tasks.

Maslab provides a significantly more difficult robotics problem than many other university-level robotics contests. Although students know the general size, shape, and color of the floors and walls, the students do not know the exact layout of the playing field. In addition, Maslab robots are completely autonomous, or in other words, the robots operate, calculate, and plan without human intervention. Finally, Maslab is one of the few robotics contests in the country to use a vision based robotics problem.

Maslab 2008 Students and Staff

News

2008-01-16 The Maslab 2008 contest will be held on February 2nd, starting with an open house at 2:30 PM in 26-100. The contest itself will begin at 3:30 PM. Join the maslab-announce mailing list for a reminder.