Publication date:
2017/12/18
On Friday, 15 December, the finals of the 9th annual Robo-Contest for secondary schools took place at Zenger's auditorium at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Charles Square. Every year, competing students are trying to accomplish given tasks with their robots built from Lego Mindstroms kits. This year, the Unstable Voltage University team beat the team from Příbram´s secondary grammar school, participating under the name Mindbreak2. The third place was taken by another secondary grammar school team,Kotrš, of Jakub Škoda Gymnasium in Přerov.
A record number of 155 student teams have been nominated for this year's Robo-contest, of which 29 teams made it to the finals. This year´s finals consisted of a task called the Shooting Range which allows all teams to choose a variety of design approaches. Lego robots had 90 seconds to collect balls on the board and arrange them by colors and place them in the appropriate color targets.
The winning robot by Unstable Voltage used a color-recognition method with a color sensor combined with a giant stack and accurate target shooting.
