NVIDIA Robot Team Building
A NVIDIA Robot Team Building in the lobby of the Voyager building was a smashing success for about 75 key employees.
15 teams of about 5 people each competed to build robots faster than each other, and for the World Record, and then we battled in several rounds of melee style robot combat. The winning build team, pictured here, had only three people and finished with an impressive build time of 38:58 (thirty-eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds). Considering there were 15 teams, and most teams had 5 people, I was truly impressed this trio won, and with the amount of teams that finished under 45 minutes.
The robot battles were truly extraordinaire! 12 to 15 robots battling in the same arena at the same time is incredibly fun, exhilarating, exciting, and entertaining! We managed to get all 15 bots into the last-bot-standing finale which was a testament to the range and depth of talent within the 75 competitors! It was also extraordinaire because the main lobby in the Voyager building is stunning for many reasons described below, and because dozens of employees could watch our event from different vantage points within the building.
Whether you know NVIDIA from the GeForce 20 or the GeForce 4090, or from their recent rise as leader in AI chip technology and production, or even from Jim Cramer, you can appreciate excellence in engineering. Visiting their headquarters reinforces the “video game” emphasis the company was famous for in my own 30s and 40s, as I tried to “out horsepower” my brother building PC computers idealized for gaming. The video card was always going to be the determiner for video and video games, almost no matter how much RAM you shoved into the motherboard, or how fast of a Pentium Chip you purchased.
Our event was inside one of two space ship looking buildings from the outside, and futuristic feeling on the inside. You could film a remake of “Logans Run” in the expansive lobby. Folks from multiple levels of the office, some five or more stories high and offset like a giant staircase, could watch our group of 75 people battle robots. Interlaced seamlessly into the interior landscape were touches of plants giving it a mild conservatory feel enhanced by the gigantic wall of windows facing outward towards the other space ship.
A huge thank you to NVIDIA for inviting TeamWorx to your spectacular campus, and for some truly amazing robot battles!
