Robotics Inventions
Robotics Inventions is a Research & Development company specializing in autonomous robotics, vision systems and autonomy components.
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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.
2007-07-24 11:23 Polish pupils came seventh in US robotics competition
Polish secondary school children from the 3rd Secondary School in
Gdynia under the patronage of the Military Navy came seventh in the
prestigious robotics competition in the USA.The competition was
sponsored by NASA and was called "Botball". It was held between 10th and
13th July in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The task of the contestants was to construct a robot which performs
missions similar to those done by robots sent to the moon, as well as
programming such a robot - all using a special set of Lego bricks.
The robots had to move and perform various tasks. They were not,
however, remote controlled the vehicles were supposed to move using
specially built-in computer processors. The vehicles had to move along
sign-posted routes, pass obstacles, transport small objects. The teams
steering the vehicle had to react appropriately when the robots were in
an unfriendly environment and had to overcome sudden occurrences such as
nearby "volcanic" eruptions.
The team from Gdynia, called "Nyana", took part in the competition under
the patronage of the Polish Astronomical Society. The team consisted of:
Jakub Oller (18) and Łukasz Kszonowski (17). The team was supervised by
Konrad Buzak - a information-technology teacher at the school.
The Poles competed with representatives of 60 teams from the USA and a
team from Japan. The first three places went to American teams.
NASA, as a sponsor of the event, wants to use the competition to select
young talents - gifted pupils, who in years to come, can be specialists
in space engineering and construct machines such as moon-vehicles.
Oller and Kszonowski, supervised by Konrad Buzak, won a similar
competition organised in Poland in March. It was the 5th National
Robotics Competition for Secondary and Middle Schools "znekBOT 2007:
A-BOT" in Gdynia. It is a programme implemented under the supervision of
the Polish Astronomical Society. The task in "znekBOT" was also to
construct and program a robot, which can then move and perform various
missions.
znekBOT 2008 will be held next February. For more information go to
znek.astronet.pl, where you can read the team's blog.
"Botball" competition has been organised from the mid-nineties. For more
information go to www.botball.org.
PAP - Nauka w Polsce, Joanna Poros, Krzysztof Czart, tr.ajfb
2006-03-17 20:57 Robots Constructed by Secondary
School Children Competition
Space robots constructed by secondary school children competed on 11th
March during znekBOT 2006, the 4th annual All-Poland Robotics
Competition organised for middle and secondary schools in Gdynia. The
competition was organised by the Polish Astronautic Society (PTA) as
part of its ZNEK (Employing Education to Study Space) programme.
It is based on Botball, a high-school robotics competition organised by
NASA. Each of the nine teams of four that qualified for the finals
(seven from the "Tri-city" - Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot, one from Katowice and
one from Warsaw) compete in building and programming robots designed for
exploring Space. The main aim is to familiarise pupils with space
robotics and astronautics through participation in simulated unmanned
missions.
Each team have to build and program a robot from a Lego Mindstorm set,
which will accomplish the mission. This year's challenge was to
construct BOT, a robot, which moves along marked routes, can overcome
three-dimensional obstacles, collects and transports samples (these
being ping-pong balls), with the aid of light and touch sensors as well
as a few electrical engines.
An important element of the mission is testing the robot's programming
and construction in a hostile environment and its ability to cooperate
with other robots designed by other teams.
PAP - Nauka w Polsce, Urszula Jabłońska, tr. ajfb