The aim of Malte Völkening (left), Manuel Kerk (right) and Christian Schlieker (missing from the picture) from the Städtisches Kopernikus-Gymnasium in Rheine was to construct a robot that can drive completely autonomously through an agricultural field. The robot was built on the chassis of an originally remote-controlled buggy. To enable the robot to make its own decisions, it consists of a laptop and a microcontroller board for motor control and sensor processing. While this robot is working its way through a cornfield, for example, ...