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United States // Tactical Capture the Flag

MIT Circuit Breakers

Two robots, one mind.

MIT // Cambridge

Crew
5
Robots
2
Track
Tactical Capture the Flag
Founded
2022
To Dhahran
10,293 km

Robot catalog

The machines

TM-U01

In testing
RelayFast flag-runner // Open · CTFThe capture half of the pair: a lightweight holonomic rover optimised for acceleration and tight turns, carrying the flag-grab mechanism and a downward-facing line camera.
Drive
Holonomic (4× omni)
Compute
Jetson Orin Nano
Grab
Servo claw
Comms
5 GHz mesh

TM-U02

Design phase
SentinelMap-holder & blocker // Open · CTFThe defensive half: slower, heavier, and built to hold territory while broadcasting the shared map. Wide stance for blocking lanes.
Drive
Differential
Role
Defense / relay
Sensors
360° LiDAR
Comms
5 GHz mesh

The crew

Who's behind the build

  • Priya NairTeam lead · Autonomy
  • Diego AlvarezPerception
  • Grace KimPlanning
  • Tomás CostaMechanical
  • Ada WrightComms & networking

Team dossier

A CTF team that competes like a distributed-systems project. The Circuit Breakers run a shared occupancy map across two robots, so a sighting by one instantly re-routes the other. Most of their work is in the coordination stack, not the hardware.

Their track: Tactical Capture the Flag

From the pit // shot list

  • 01Shared-map demo
  • 02Relay pit
  • 03Mesh test
  • 04Whiteboard plan

Planned coverage. No pit photography exists yet.

One of the crews entered for the RoboNexus World Championship.

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