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Semarang university students win US robot contest
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The contest involved building a computerized robot that can detect and distinguish fire. (www.trincoll.edu/-)
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team of three Indonesian students from the Islamic Sultan Agung University (Unissula) in Semarang, Central Java, won the Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest held in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 2-3.
The contest involved building a computerized robot that can detect and distinguish fire.
The team’s four robots won first place in the Fire Fighting Unique and Walking Fire Fighting categories.
“More than 80 teams competed in the contest. Our strongest competitor was from China,” said La Ode Muhammad Idris, one of the team members.
La Ode, and his fellow team members, Faizal Aminuddin Aziz and Ahmad Zuhri, are Industrial Engineering Faculty students. The team spent three months preparing for the contest.
The Unissula robot team participated in a similar contest held at Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University in June last year, joined by up to 24 teams representing higher education institutions from all over the country. The team won first place in the 2015 Indonesian Robot Contest and thus became Indonesia’s representatives at the US contest.
Unissula has rewarded the team with Master’s degree scholarships at the university, funds to perform umroh (minor haj) and cash prizes of Rp 40 million (US$3,044) to help them prepare for the upcoming regional and national robot competitions. (din/kes)
