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ANDUNG: A robotics team from the Computer University (Unikom) in Bandung, West Java, was named on Sunday the best team in the RoboWaiter category during the 19th Trinity College Robot Contest at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States.

Team leader Yusrilla Kerlooza told The Jakarta Post that the team won two first places and two second places in the international competition.

“Thank God,” Yusrilla said in a text message sent to the Post from the US just after the competition on Saturday local time.

The same team won the first place in the advanced class and the first and second places in the standard class in the same category last year.

The team assembled a robot with the ability to help elderly people to get themselves a plate from a refrigerator. During the competition an elderly gentleman sat on a wheelchair in a kitchen and the robot had to be able to get him a plate. The team with the fastest robot doing the tasks got the highest score.

Yusrilla said that two Indonesian teams were still competing in the event.

“In the next 12 hours, robotics teams from the Bandung Institute of Technology and the Telkom Institute of Technology will be competing in the firefighting category. I hope Indonesian people will pray for the teams,”
he said.