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Dr. Nathan Landsberger is the stereotypical Experimental Engineer. With his messy hair graying from stress, blue jeans and polo shirt, and the appearance of pulling constant all nighters, he always seems to be contemplating about his experiments rather than trivial matters. He speaks in almost incomprehensive Physics jargon, perpetually unorganized and overbearing; yet, has an erratic but captivating sense of humor. The room was spacious, but unbearably messy and clustered. Complicated circuit boards were spread out through the workstations; projects lay around the room as they were some sort of decoration furniture. The blackboard was completely filled with physics problems and a single bolded quote on the corner of the board, “I’ve got a …show more content…

It was around this time when Dr. Landsberger would get up from his work station and hover around the team only to ask questions instead of orders. It almost seems as he could have answered the same questions he asked himself, but was only testing his students. Despite his unwavering confidence in his team to discover the solutions, the tone of his voice and his perplexing body language says otherwise. Outside the laboratory, Dr. Landsberger could be seen pacing back and forth, reviewing some of his notes from the questions he asked. He stared blankly into the sky and just talked. It was as if someone was there, challenging him with new ideas and experiments. After an hour he would come into some sort of realization, but simply walked back into the room. He sat back down to his work station and simply observed the team. The room laboratory was quiet for once, as if everyone had gave up. “Let’s call it a day, shall we? Your professor here would treat everyone to dinner.” His students reluctantly agreed, but spends a couple of minutes after his announcement rethinking about the robot. Outside the laboratory, the team livens up. The students were no longer teammates, but friends. They would jokingly tease one another and even the professor was not excluded in this ordeal. Sometime throughout the night, the professor would lecture to his …show more content…

Landsberger approaches the door with the keys on his hands. “Professor, we figured out how to fix the problem. I think spring would do the trick-remember how you were describing springs as an anti-moment mechanism? How about we use springs to counter the momentum of the weight?” Dr. Landsberger smiled as he opened the door and a sense of excitement and engagement filled the air again. The professor sat at his work station seeming busy, while his students paced across the room to fetch supplies and write on the board. As months past, the students could see the compilation of failures built to a physical form. All of their compilation of failures had allowed them to construct a fully functional robot that not only can lift objects of different shapes and sizes, but can move autonomously without the guidance or control of another person. Now it was time to test if all their work was worth the amount of effort they put into the

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