Feb 1 2011
The robotics team comprising Anjal Parikh and Anirudh Manjunath has won the first prize in TRiCKS, the National Robotics Championship, conducted at the IIT-Bombay.
They were honored for developing one among the best robots and were offered a trip to NASA. Around 1000 schools took part in the contest. The event was organized by Thinklabs Technosolutions.
The theme of the contest for junior school students was ‘Go Green’. Participants need to exhibit how a remote-controlled robot could clean up a city soiled with rubbish. One of the members of Thinklabs Technosolutions mentioned that the main objective is to encourage children to imagine how a remotely controlled robot can perform the city cleaning operation. Children designed various robot models for cleaning roads and unloading garbage into a dustbin on its course till the end.
The event included ‘Drive Safely’ as theme for senior level students. Thinklabs stated that it is significant to make the young generation to understand the requirement of safe driving. Participants were asked to think on the possibility of substituting humans with reliable robots as drivers. Robots had to be pre-programmed on the basis of sensor detectors for making them work. The driving robots should obey signal practices, beep during surpassing, drive securely while driving on a flyover and also should park the vehicle safely.
Gagan Goyal, Director of Thinklabs Technosolutions, has stated that the robotics contest is focused on making everyone to avail robotics education and he added that Indian students are so potent in this field.
Source: http://www.thinklabs.in