Rudy Goes Robotic: Engineering a New Age of Football

Author: Erica Futa

At the University of Notre Dame, football is sacred. Student spirit for the game pervades all of campus—if you’re not on the team, you’re certainly rooting for the Fighting Irish come game day. But for one club of engineering students, simply "watching" football wasn't quite enough. By building and programming their very own football-playing robots, they're putting their own tech twist on America's favorite sport.