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Qualifiers kick off in robot contest

The qualification trials for the Vietnam 2011 Robot Creation Contest for southern provinces kicked off on April 5 at Rach Mieu Gymnasium, with the participation of 73 teams from 18 universities, colleges and vocational schools.
The qualification trials for the Vietnam 2011 Robot Creation Contestfor southern provinces kicked off on April 5 at Rach Mieu Gymnasium,with the participation of 73 teams from 18 universities, colleges andvocational schools.

There will be 160 matches of three minuteseach until April 8 to determine 12 teams to join the 14 teams from thenorth and six teams from the central region in the final contestorganised in Da Nang City in June.

The overall winner at Da Nangwill represent Vietnam to contest at the 10th ABU Asia-Pacific RobotContest, known as ABU Robocon, which is to take place in Thailand.

The contest theme is Loy Krathong, Lighting Happiness with Friendship.

Thegame goal is achieving Loy Krathon, which involves a team's automaticrobot successfully dropping a lit candle on the Krathong float on theriver surface.

If neither team achieves Loy Krathong at the end of the three-minute match, the winner will be the team with the highest score.

TheRBU Robocon was launched for the first time in 2002 in Japan. Inaddition to promoting relationships and cultural exchanges to fostercloser ties among countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the objective ofthe contest is to develop knowledge, creativity and innovation amongyounger people in the region.

Through the contest's 10-yearhistory, Vietnam has been one of the most successful countries bywinning the contest in 2002, 2004 and 2006, and achieving a deep runinto the contest many times./.

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