Robotics Inventions
Robotics Inventions is a Research & Development company specializing in autonomous robotics, vision systems and autonomy components.
Press Information
Our PR mission is to introduce robotics and autonomous robotics to kids, students and entire society. In this mood RI has been organizing and sponsoring robotics contests and participating in some.
2009-06-18 RI A-BOT in top 3 teams in C-Elrob 2009 in Oulu, Finland
RI A-BOT - the Robotics Inventions Unmanned Ground Vehicle platform came
as one of the top 3 UGV solutions in the Camp Security scenario in
C-Elrob 2009.
It is a great success of Robotics Inventions in this year C-Elrob. It is only after 2 years after the start of development that the RI UGV obtained prestigious position as one of top 3 UGV solutions out of 7 teams participating in this Civil Autonomous Robots Pan European Competition C-Elrob. RI A-BOT development started in early 2007 and since the RI made the iterations of the hardware, electronics and software. This year the autonomy module was significantly improved, and some polishing was introduced to hardware and electronics.
The RI goal now is to improve both hardware and software in order to provide yet more reliable autonomous platform for 2010 Military Elrob competition in Germany.
2009-03-26 RI_znekBOT_7.0 in the Space Exploration Center in Warsaw
The
7th znekBot Robotics Competition finals took place on 21 March, 2009 in
Space Exploration Center in Warsaw.
Two junior high school students from Gdynia Szulc and Ziolkowski won the RI_znekBOT_7.0 competition for young robotists. The competition took place on 21 March in Space Exploration Center of Polish Academy of Sciences. The winners received the invitation to the international Botball competition that is organized by NASA and KIPR. This year Botball is organized close to Washington in USA.
Members of the winning team R-Bot are the second grade students of Junior High School no 1 named after the Gdynia Scouts of the 2nd Republic of Poland. In the znekBOT finals teams were challenged with hypotetical failure of the Lunar lander. The autonomous robots were designed to rescue crew and passengers from the vehicle which was about to explode. R-Bot team's robot rescued and transported 5 people to the safety of the Lunar Hotel in 76 seconds. The second place was awarded to the Team "Dzikie Rexy" from Zespol Szkol Lacznosci in Gdansk, their robot needed 7 second more to achieve the goal. In the finals there were the other teams from Gdansk: "Ilo Alfa" from 1st High School in Gdansk and the "PRObot Team" from Catholic Junior High School of St. Kazimierz. As PAP learned from the young winners - the preparation to the znekBOT, ie. constructing and programming the robot, took one month. Junior high school students have been programming already for 5 years. It was the second time they were participating in znekBOT competition, but it was the first such a great success. As PAP was told by the President of Robotics Inventions, Marek Sadowski, the winners would be supported also with the special invitation to Botball in USA and the knowledge support during preparations by Robotics Inventions employees.
RI_znekBOT_7.0 competition has been organized since 2003 by Polish Astronautics Society and Robotics Inventions. Robotics Inventions cooperates with Botball organizers since the beginning. There were 19 teams enrolled this year, but only 13 took part in the competition. The single requirement for the teams to participate was the Lego Mindstorm NXT or RCX robotics kit. The kit was used to build and program the mobile robots in order to undertake given autonomous challenges.
PAP - Nauka w Polsce/Ewelina Krajczyńska/agt/bsz/mw
znekBot 2008 Finals in Pomeranian Science & Technology Park!
The 6th znekBot Robotics Competition
Finals took place Jan 12-13, 2008 in PSTP , Gdynia. This year's
competition was entered by 15 high school students' teams - projects
prepared by 12 of them were accepted by the Jury for participation in
the tournament. The winners - "ETAM" team from Gdańsk High School no. 3
- have been awarded with a cash prize which - a subsidy from the City of
Gdynia to help the "ETAM" team represent Poland during this year's
international Botball Competition in United States.
A few weeks prior to each znekBot edition's finals students are presented with a task, in order to complete which they need to design, build and program a mobile robot. During the finals the participants' robots compete against each other on a 4' x 8' playing field. This year's task scenario was an assignment on the South Pole of the Moon. Polish pupils came seventh in US robotics competition.