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.

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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]