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ROBOLYMPICS - the preliminaries

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On February 14 and 15, 2012, take place the local games of the ROBOLYMPICS at Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and at five renowned Russian Universities. The winner teams will travel to Moscow (February 17 to 19) and will participate at the finals there.

Three teams are fighting right now at BRSU for their chance to make it to the finals, among those two Canadian guest students.

The Russian partners in this initiative are Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow State Technical University of Radiotechnic, Electronics and Automation, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University and the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University.

The finals will be held with a public talk and live demonstrations at the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow.

Students of the bachelor study programmes and the first semester of the master degree programmes are getting in touch with robots and can try their hand at solving real world problems on a small scale with the NXT Mindstorm robots.

The organizers offer the hardware: 35 Lego NXT-Mindstorms and the laptops necessary for their programming as well as a youBot. The tasks are challenging and a splendid opportunity for exchanging ideas with others.

The winners of phase one can hope for prize-money (600€) and the winners of the finals will win a one-week stay in the partner country at a robotics laboratory or at a tournament.

The tournament is part of the programme of the German-Russian Robotics Initiative for the German-Russian Year for Education, Science and Innovation (Deutsch-Russisches Jahr der Bildung, Wissenschaft und Innovation).

Our prize-winning robot lady Jenny already is on her way to Moscow for the ROBOLYMPICS: on February third she showed off her skills to BRSU president Prof. Hartmut Ihne and Ministerialrat Michael Schlicht and Regierungsdirektor Thomas Sondermann who are both from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and responsible for the cooperation with Russia and the CIS states.

Contact: Prof. Paul G. Plöger

 



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