Summer '97 I went to Japan for ROBOCON '97, the
international design contest follow-up to MIT's 2.70 contest.
The Welcome banquet.
We made the most of the fact that drinking age in Japan is only 19.
A group tried to climb Mt. Fuji.
The Temple of Kencho-Ji, built 700 years ago.
The competition table.
Our robot, "WoodChuck" on contest day.
My team, #6, "Woodchuck". From left to right are Chi Won Kim,
from Korea, me, Carsten Huschka from Germany, Kazutaka Uchida from
Japan, Edgar Higashi from Brazil, and Emmanuel Schorter from
France.