The theme of this year’s 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) competition was “MIT’s Greatest Hacks” in honor of the Institute’s 150th anniversary. The four tasks that the teams’ robots had to complete were placing a police car on the dome, pulling the Caltech cannon, dropping five bouncing balls, and inflating a weather balloon on the Harvard football field.

Arfa Aijazi—the tech

The theme of this year’s 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) competition was “MIT’s Greatest Hacks” in honor of the Institute’s 150th anniversary. The four tasks that the teams’ robots had to complete were placing a police car on the dome, pulling the Caltech cannon, dropping five bouncing balls, and inflating a weather balloon on the Harvard football field. Arfa Aijazi—the tech