Việt Nam wins Asia-Pacific robot contest for 6th time

August 28, 2017 - 09:00

A group of university students from the southern province of Đồnng Nai on Sunday won the Asia-Pacific robot contest, known as Robocon, held in Tokyo, Japan.

The Lạc Hồng University team who won the 2017 Asia-Pacific robot contest (Robocon), bringing Việt Nam its sixth championship. — Photo nhandan.com.vn
Viet Nam News

HÀ NỘI — A group of university students from the southern province of Đồnng Nai on Sunday won the Asia-Pacific robot contest, known as Robocon, held in Tokyo, Japan.

The victory for the Lạc Hồng University students was the sixth time a Vietnamese team has won the contest.

This year’s competition featured 16 teams from 15 countries and regions against each other in a “landing disc” contest, with teams required to build robots that can throw flying discs to hit beach balls from seven spots on a field.

In the final round, the Vietnamese team defeated a Malaysian team, with the Vietnamese robot finishing the round with a perfect score in just 1 minute and 20 seconds.

Japan and Thailand claimed second and third position, respectively.

Việt Nam has entered the competition every year since its first edition in 2002.

Three of the five previous championships were claimed by HCM City University of Science & Technology (2002, 2004, 2006), while Lạc Hồng University won in 2014, and Hưng Yên University of Technology and Education triumphed the following year.

Next year Robocon will be held in Việt Nam, themed “Throwing còn” – inspired by a popular folk game among northern ethnic minority people during festivals, in which, players throw a ball through a ring on top of a 15-20m tall bamboo stick. — VNS

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