Suffolk: robotics teams gear up
Photo credit: Handout | Local students view a NASA transmission of robotics contest rules at Stony Brook University recently. They have 42 days to assemble their climbing and disc-throwing robots.
Local robotics teams are calling this year's competition the most difficult one yet but say they're up for the challenge.
More than 40 student teams from Long Island schools gathered earlier this month to kick off the 2013 season of the FIRST Robotics Competition at Stony Brook University.
The teams -- along with 2,000 other squads nationally -- received this year's game rules through...