2014 Taiwan Intelligent Robot Contest: 300 teams competed in Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Nearly 300 intelligent robot teams from domestic and international areas participated in this weekend (5/24- 5/25) at the final competition of the "2014 Taiwan Intelligent Robot Contest" at Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (STUST). 262 teams from primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, and universities were divided into 19 groups and allocated to 12 venues for the interesting intelligent robot contest. There were a variety of categories in the contest, including robot basketball, humanoid robot sprint, self-propelled car racing, robot fight, robot sumo, robot dancing, and computer mouse maze, racing and many others. The intelligent robot contest is fun, professional, and interactive: while it fully demonstrates excellence of domestic research and development, it can also bring students and audiences closer to robots to understand more about intelligent robots.

【Robot Dance Contest (2013)】

Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (STUST) has actively held several national intelligent robot competitions over the past years. This is the 8th consecutive year. One purpose of holding such a competition is to create a stage or an arena for schools at all levels to observe and learn from each other as they promote intelligent robots as a part of science education. STUST is the first university to have an intelligent robot research center. In addition to actively developing robot-related core technologies, STUST has been trying to make intelligent robot as a part of science education by organizing large-scale robot contests, winter and summer robot science camps, and meetings for domestic and international schools, laboratories, teachers and students to exchange knowledge and skills related to intelligent robots. This year, 6 international teams, including the one from Grace Christian College, the Philippines, came to Taiwan again for the contest. The contest is greatly expected to be as great as ever.

【A scene from the 2013 Taiwan Intelligent Robot Contest】

Thanks to the growth of intelligent robot technology, such electronic producers as Foxconn and Innolux have recently been very positive in developing their robot troops. It is widely believed that we will soon see a large number of robot applications in industrial production. Both Innolux and STUST have in recent years established a close relationship to work together, hoping that they can create great engineers and R&D personnel and develop more sophisticated techniques and skills in automation industry.