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  • [music]

  • Alight, here's the quick story;

  • We've had the hardest day of my life,

  • because we got here at 5 this morning,

  • powered on the robot, and it went, "tooph"...

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  • It turns out we overheated the power distribution brick

  • inside the robot,

  • because a coolant line had come unplugged.

  • We basically melted most of our robot.

  • We spent the next

  • six to eight hours fixing that,

  • in various ways. First we

  • replaced the power distribution board,

  • replaced the pump motor,

  • which are the very heart of the robot,

  • and then once we got the thing booted,

  • we realized that the heat had also damaged the (...)

  • main reception computers,

  • and then once we got the computers to boot,

  • the disks had been fragmented badly,

  • so we had to repair our disks!

  • "Go MIT!"

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  • we got out here,

  • a wrist broke.

  • Boston Dynamics fixed a wrist on us.

  • After all this,

  • we got to run, finally.

  • We got out on the course,

  • we did our egress, which is my favorite thing,

  • and we had a time when we got to the drill

  • that could have been the winning time.

  • We got the drill out on the first button push,

  • started cutting, the drill slipped away from the wall.

  • He, being our human operator,

  • tried to cut again,

  • but the drill has a five-minute timeout,

  • so at the end of five minutes,

  • the drill stops.

  • At that point, it was either eight points or bust,

  • we knew that if we didn't get all eight points

  • we wouldn't win the competition,

  • so he did what he was supposed to do.

  • He started trying to punch the wall.

  • It wasn't close enough to fall,

  • and it ultimately knocked the robot over,

  • and he had to go out and

  • and he could only do then,

  • our favorite tasks at the end, which were

  • the terrain and the stairs.

  • I like walking robots,

  • and that was our chance to shine at the end,

  • but it was just one little drill slip

  • away from potentially winning the whole competition.

  • [music]

  • I think we got to show the world that,

  • that a robot based very much on autonomy,

  • was capable of competing with the very best

  • robots in the whole world.

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  • I'm extremely proud of the team.

  • We've been working absolutely

  • around the clock this week,

  • we faced all sorts of problems,

  • we've addressed them with digity

  • and intelligence,

  • and I'm just so proud!

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  • [laughing]

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