ABU Robocon

The Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) is an Asian Oceanian College robot competition, founded in 2002 by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. In the competition robots compete to complete a task within a set period of time. The contest aims to create friendship among young people with similar interests who will lead their countries in the 21st century, as well as help advance engineering and broadcasting technologies in the region. The event is broadcast in many countries through ABU member broadcasters.

Each year the competition has different topics, but generally speaking three or more robots must be used to complete the tasks. The best robots usually weight more than 10kg and span in one square meter area. To build the robots, contestants, who are restricted to be undergraduate students, must possess rich knowledge in programming, mechanical design and electronic circuit design.

ABU Robocon 2009 took place in Tokyo on August 21 and 22, and was won by Harbin Institute of Technology to give China its third successive win.[1]

ABU Robocon 2010 took place in Cairo[2] on September 21, and was won by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China to give China its 4th overwhelming win. Now China holds the record for the most number of wins.

ABU Robocon 2011 was held in Bangkok[3] on August 28. The winner is Dhurakij Pundit University coming from Thailand.

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Results

Year Host city Host Broadcaster Theme ABU Robocon Award Grand Prix
2002 Tokyo, Japan NHK Reach for the Top of Mt. Fuji Kanazawa Institute of Technology Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
2003 Bangkok, Thailand MCOT Takraw Space Conqueror Chungnam National University Sawangdandin Industrial and Community Education College
2004 Seoul, South Korea KBS Reunion of Separated Lovers, Gyeonwoo & Jiknyeo Mongolian University of Science and Technology Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
2005 Beijing, China CCTV Climb on the Great Wall Light the Holy Fire Higher Technological Institute Tenth of Ramadan City, Egypt University of Tokyo
2006 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia RTM Building the World’s Tallest Twin Tower Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
2007 Hanoi, Vietnam VTV Halong Bay Discovery Electronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya Xi'an Jiaotong University
2008 Pune, India Doordarshan Govinda Higher Technological Institute 10th of Ramadan City,Egypt Xi'an Jiaotong University
2009 Tokyo, Japan NHK Travel Together for the Victory Drums University of Hong Kong Harbin Institute of Technology
2010 Cairo, Egypt ERTU Robo-Pharaohs built pyramids Lac Hong University University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2011 Bangkok, Thailand MCOT Loy Krathong, Lightning Happiness with friendship University of Tokyo Dhurakij Pundit University
2012 Hong Kong RTHK Peng On Dai Gat (In pursuit of peace and prosperity) unknown unknown

See also

References

  1. ^ "Speedy robot claims ABU Robocon 2009 crown". Network World. 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_OgyzMqM0. Retrieved 2009-08-23. 
  2. ^ http://www.roboconegypt2010.com/
  3. ^ http://www.aburobocon2011.com//

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