Aside from aiming to popularize robot sumo, which is a sport consisting of two robots trying to push each other towards the edge of the arena, the team wants to push the competition to the next level.

Autonomous robot Sumo competition Ars Technica's Jennifer Hahn visited Cooper Union's end-of-semester Mechatronics course autonomous robot Sumo competition.

While most Sumo-style robots are fairly sizable, there is a subsection of the Sumo robot movement that focuses on making small robots. Really small robots. [Patrick] wrote in to share his latest cr… ...