SKUBA team Students from our Faculty of Engineering earned the runner-up award at the annual RoboCup Asia Pacific 2021 in the Open Platform RoboCup@Home category at Super Regional level, was held online from 25 until 28 November 2021 in Nagoya, Japan. The awards ceremony for total mission points and the awards runner-up presentation of the SKUBA robot to the jury in the RoboCup Asia Pacific 2021 Competition were also performed online.
The RoboCup is a home-made robotics competition where each team has to design and build every part of the robot by themselves. This contest aims to show the potential of robots and their inventors to the highest degree. Six teams qualified for the final round, hailing from Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and China. An online competition was conducted which brought the robots to compete in a real setting in Thailand. Still photos and video images were transmitted to the committee in Japan in real-time. This year’s contest was divided into 3 missions, namely a hardware robot capability task, artificial intelligence robot ability task and housekeeping tasks. Awards were based on votes from both technical committees and outside robotics companies, creativity and collaboration between robots and humans, as well as the variety of practical applications, including the difficulty of presenting each robot and its benefits to daily human life.
You can watch the SKUBA team robots performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo3kLt4ecQQ