Legend has it that somewhere in Hanoi, there is a temple in which a group of Buddhist monks have 64 rings on a set of pegs. They need to move the rings from one peg to another, but you can only move one ring at time and are not allowed to place a larger on on top of a smaller one. When they complete the task...the world will end!
Sounds boring though huh? That is where the robots come in! Robots are suited to dirty dull and dangerous tasks that humans would rather not do. Here is our Intro to Robotics lab. (oh, by the way, if you do the math, turns out if they move one ring per second, the world won't actually end for another few billion years so don't worry)
ps - What is up with the arcing?
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