Video: Lake Superior College's thing about robots

Robotic waiters, anyone?

This year's batch of students in Lake Superior College's Integrated Manufacturing program has had to design and build robots that can carry two paper cups filled with water for 20 feet -- all in a race next week, HowieBlog.com reports.

(The video above is from the 2008 competition involving water balloons.)

I think this one sounds more practical in a Jetsons kind of way, but I'm no engineer.

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