Young talents and robots

In Sochi, a review of the World Robotics Olympiad (WRO) was held in the last ten days of November.

The number of types of competitions in this competition makes the award for different categories belong to representatives of 9 countries: Russia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, United States and Japan. . The absolute leader in the number of medals is the Thai team with seven sets of medals. Russian members took second and third place, including football robots. The age of the participants is from 7 to 20.

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This Olympiad has the largest scale since 11 years of conducting a worldwide robotics competition - WRO . Competition in Sochi has 400 teams from 47 countries. The main theme of this year's forum is "Robots and the Universe." The members took the exam to the Russian city on the Black Sea coast with finished robots and automated programs completed. How to make your invention at home adapt to the exercise that the judges say? The judges are the 'judges' who have carefully reviewed the unique ideas, practicality and ability. For example, at a test stage, there is an exercise like this: "On the space station on another planet, there are solar panels that are no longer usable. The mission of the robot is to detect faulty and replacement battery panels'. The time fixed for problem solving is limited to 2 minutes.

Among the guests and fans of this worldwide test are not only curious travelers or parents of young contestants, not only university lecturers and teachers from high school. , but also entrepreneurs who are willing to invest in interesting projects. For example, investors' interest in the development of unique device "EkzoAtlet" for the recovery of people with disabilities. The outer frame ensures they can lift their feet, as well as speed up the recovery of the active system.

The most spectacular of all the international types of Olympiad, as always, is "Football Robot" . Each team introduced two automatic mechanisms, which are responsible for putting the ball into the opponent's net.

Please note that the WRO is a robot assembly and programming competition, which is the world's biggest competition for robotics technical education.Olympiad is organized annually in different countries with a common goal to promote and develop scientific-technical creativity in adolescents. The geographic map of the WRO includes 50 countries and a team of millions of talented children. In Russia alone, the WRO movement attracted the participation of more than 10,000 children and young people.