(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- At the recent World Robot Olympiad (WRO 2016) held in New Delhi, India, the GUtech Robo1 students team finished 29th in the Advanced Robotics Challenge in a field of 52 teams from all over the world.
The top two teams were from Taiwan; the third was from Russia. The GUtech team was ahead of the other GCC teams in the contest; the 33rd place was of the team from AMA International University, Bahrain and the 42ndplace went to team KuBo from Kuwait. The GUtech Robo1 team is grateful to the Ministry of Education for being selected as the team representing Oman.
'The robot of the GUtech team was built using Tetrix and the Lego EV3 brick as controller. The task of the contest, building a bowling robot, had been announced about a year ago. Since then, all teams had been busy building and fine-tuning their bowling robots. The best teams from each country were then selected in national contests to represent their respective country at the world final in Delhi,' said Prof Dr Rudolf Fleischer of the department of computer sciences at Gutech.
The WRO has been an annual event since 2004. It brings together the youth from all over the world to develop their creativity, design and problem-solving skills through challenging and educational robot competitions and activities.
This year, the world final was organised bytheIndia STEM Foundation and the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM under the general theme of'Rap the Scrap' - indicating that all games in the regular and the open category were focused on reducing, recycling and managing waste.
WRO 2017 will be held in Costa Rica and the Advanced Robotics Challenge will be to build a robot playing Tetris.
The GUtech team, all students of engineering, included Prof Dr Rudolf Fleischer, coach, Neeraj Gopikrishnan, captain, Marwa al Mahruqi, member, Muzna al Hadhrami, member and Maather al Qasmi, reserve member.
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