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Ball Hog

A hundred ping pong balls are placed in a level 6’x6’ enclosed area. A 2’x2’ square in two opposite corners are marked. Build a robot that collects as many of the balls into your corner within a minute as possible.

As submitted:
Ball hog: (search and gather)
Two (or more) robots are let loose in a confined space containing a sea of ping pong balls, the robots collect as many balls as possible and return them to a base station to be counted, the robot that collects the most wins.
Variation: Within the sea of ping pong balls there are a few that are coloured red, if a bot picks up a red one and returns it to its base station, it counts against the total.
Variation: Again in the sea of white ping pong balls there are a few red coloured balls, but this time only the red balls are worth points, other colours can be added and be worth varying amounts once returned to the base station.
(credit goes to MIT robotic challenge)

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