Can the Nephew get some credit?

The original gif

As many of you have seen http://imgur.com/gallery/dXLM00p , minus the horrible spelling from a classmate (hes a civil engineering major so we can let it slide) on the front page. I, the nephew, would like to explain this more and ride on the coattails of that frontpage post. I'm mad at myself for not posting it to Imgur, because I knew it would do somewhat decent, but knowing me nope.

1st maze

The Idea of the assignment was to build and program a robot made out of NXT legos that would solve a maze without touching the walls in the fastest time. Touching the walls would cost 10 seconds each time. My idea was that if I bypassed the wall and took the 10 seconds i could be the fastest.

2nd maze

As you can see in the 1st and 2nd maze there is a week spot right at the start that if you can get over, or in my case under, you can go straight to the finish.

the Robot

To somewhat verify that I am actually the nephew, here is a picture of the actual robot. Instead of following the rules, like everyone else did, I decided to do what has never been successfully before. The only other time something like this had been attempted the group didn't successfully program the ending of the robot so they had to rely on the wall to knock them over. My first idea was to go over the wall, but it exploded (and as Dora the explorer taught me), so if you can't go over it, and is too stubborn to go around like a loser, then go under. the idea was to use wheels to lift the wall so the robot could go under, Luckily I was able to make it compact enough to turn in the starting area and work. I was the first to successfully finish the maze in my schools history, and I'm the last to go under, because they outlawed it right after, because the slamming of the plexiglass could shatter it. In the race for times, I came in 3rd... but for a mechanical engineering major not bad.

Cat Tax

TL;DR I made thing and it worked