32 teams from universities across the country will compete from May 7 to 12. The best team will go on to represent Vietnam at the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2019 in Mongolia in August, which will bring together the best team of each country in the Asia-Pacific region to compete on the international playground.

The final round of the 2019 Vietnam Robocon opened in Hai Duong city on May 7.

ABU Robocon 2019 will be held in Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city of Mongolia, with the slogan "Sharing the knowledge". This year’s contest theme of “Great Urtuu” is inspired by a traditional messenger system of Mongolia called Urtuu, which was innovated by the nomadic Mongolians for exchanging information over long distances.

Robocon Vietnam is an annual robot contest which has been held by Vietnam Television (VTV) since 2002. As a new feature of this year’s contest, the organizers have created live-streaming sessions on social media to provide technical assistance for participating students.

The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest was founded in 2002 by the 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 to help advance engineering and broadcasting technologies in the region.

IYRC Vietnam Robot contest attracts 150 pupils

The 2018 International Youth Robot Competition - IYRC Vietnam opened in Ho Chi Minh City on August 5, attracting nearly 150 outstanding pupils across the nation to field their self-made robots.

 

Robot citizen Sophia speaks at Industry 4.0 Summit & Exhibition

Sophia, the world's first robot declared a citizen, spoke at the Industry 4.0 Summit and Exhibition 2018 held in Hanoi on July 13.

 

Robot Sophia to talk about Industry 4.0 in Vietnam

Artificial intelligence gets very real as world’s first citizen robot gives a speech and hold discussions with scholars.

 

Vietnam has first-ever robot-assisted kidney removal surgery

Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have carried out kidney removal from living donors using robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

 

Mind-controlled robot arm for disabled invented by two junior students

'We want to help the Vietnamese disabled to perform daily activities more easily.'

 

Source: NDO