NXTasy challenge #3 if finally annouched! Your mission will be to build an NXT ‘Ant’ or ‘ANxT’ in short.

Ants are remarkable little creatures, capable of lifting weights several times their own body weight (if you search the net, you frequently find sites quoting that ants can lift 10, 20 and even 50 times their own body weight. However, I could not found a scientific proof for these values…).

The goal of your ANxT would be to move an object (the ‘weight’) a distance of 1 meter without touching the floor. The grade will be 50% determined by the object weight/ANxT weight ratio, 30% by the mass transfer rate and 20% by how much your ANxT is, well, ‘antish’…

Oh, and the object must be bigger then your ANxT in all dimensions, did I mention that already ?

The full details, rules, submission procedure, deadline etc. are here.