More than 160 teams participated in Robocon 2014

This year's Robocon contest attracted 161 exam teams from universities, colleges and professional schools throughout the country.

Today, Vietnam 2014 Robocon Contest qualifiers officially opened in three areas. The contest in the northern region was held in Hanoi with 110 teams; Central - Central Highlands was held in Da Nang with 31 teams and the South held in Ho Chi Minh City with 20 teams.

According to the schedule, the qualifying competition takes place from 2-6 April. After that, the 32 best teams will participate in the final round from 5-11 May in Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa). The winner of the top prize will represent Vietnam to attend the Asia-Pacific Robocon (ABU Robocon 2014) held in India in August 2014.

Robot demonstration team at the opening ceremony this morning at Tay Ho Gymnasium (Hanoi).(Photos provided by BTC)

ABU Robocon 2014 has a close and meaningful topic of Robot Family to honor and praise parents for their great contributions and contributions to the children - future owners of the country.

Teams competing in Robocon 2014 will have to design and build a 'Robot Family'. This year's stadium will be a park for two teams - two robot families that perform 3 games: Seesaw (seesaw), Pole walk (walking on the column) and Swing (swing). When the sub-robot completes 3 tasks, it can carry out the 4th task at the moving staircase located in the middle of the park. Then, if the robot can wave the flag on the highest point, the team will achieve 'SHABAASH' or the absolute victory.

The big challenge of this year's exam is the implementation of robot transition steps on a more complex game field. Because autonomous machines do not have wheels or crawlers, moving, climbing stairs rely on arms or legs and require good coordination. The robot after being separated from the mother robot (the stairs) must perform many tasks independently such as climbing the top of the stairs without touching the sides of the stairs, waving the flag at the highest point of the robot to Highest score.