Team of Cambridge students invent robot to compete in a new high-tech event: The “Rowbot” Race.

FROM: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/08/13/rowbot-race-cambridge-challenges-oxford-new-regatta-using-student/ 

Since 1829, The Boat Race has pitted the best rowers from Oxford and Cambridge against one another in an annual regatta watched by millions.

But now a team of Cambridge students have invented a robot they think can better human athletes -  and have challenged their rivals to compete in a new high-tech event: The “Rowbot” Race.
Over the past eight months, a team of engineers, comprising five students from Peterhouse College, have created a machine which mirrors a human’s rowing technique.