Team students under 19 years of age from the Faculty of Information Technology of the Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI) won first place in the Super Team test Robocup 2024he World Championship in Robotics which was carried out in Holland between July 17 and 23 in the city of Eindhoven.
The students who traveled were Martin Talamonfrom the school of Galileo Galilei and Ian Molinafrom the Da Vinci School, while the rest of the team members remained in Buenos Aires.
they are Zoe Casares and Milagros Lalli (both from Da Vinci College) and Tania Arenas and Joaquín Bares (both from General Belgrano School).
Those who traveled were accompanied by two teacherswhich highlighted the relevance of the discipline in which Argentina’s representative students excelled.
“It should be noted that the Super Team Test is the most important of the whole event because it highlights the technological, leadership and collaborative working skills of a team within a team solving revolutionary technological problems” remarked Gonzalo Zabala, director of the Laboratory of Robotics and Educational Technologies of the Center for Advanced Studies in Information Technologies (CAETI) of the UAI.
Alicia Siri, teacher and coordinator of the Department of Informatics and Educational Robotics of the same institution, was also part of the delegation. The team was made up of students from Vaneduc Group schools and was part of in cooperation with the team from Taiwan.
Molina, Talamona and Zabala, part of Argentina’s team champion at the World Robotics Championship. UAI photoThe 27th edition of the championship has 17 competitions in 5 different categories, one of which is the so-called “Simulated Rescue”.
This is a competition in which teams had to respond to computer disaster scenariosat different levels of complexity.
Celebrating the 1st place 🎖️UAI Sub-19 team in the super team test #Robocup2024 in cooperation with the team from Taiwan🎉 Congratulations to Martina, Ian, Gonzalo and Alice for such an important achievement, thanks to their efforts and dedication!!! @UAI_Univ pic.twitter.com/HYM6D2bTNC
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Given that assumption, The robots had to identify the victim and remove him from the danger zone.
In May, Talamona said that participating in the event was a “dream come true” for her.
“I couldn’t believe it when I found out. It’s a dream come true and recognition of hard work. Exchange, collaboration and feedback with other students“I think it’s a bit of a competition idea as well,” he said.
Molina stated, “It’s a unique opportunity to learn and grow; I’m excited to interact with students from all over the world. It’s crazy to get to represent Argentina.”
Robot soccer matches and the idea of competing with a human team to win the 2050 World Cup
At the youth level, there was also a controlled rescue competition and another rescue competition. in a maze. In addition, there was an autonomous robot soccer tournament and a home assistance robot challenge (from preparing meals to helping patients with reduced mobility).
In the “older teams”, Robocup has the presence of robotics researchers who – like the younger ones – have put themselves to the test in rescue and soccer challenges.
A team of Argentinian robotics students became world champions in the Netherlands. UAIMoose the highlight is the matches between the robots action, in five categories: medium, small, standard robots (all using the same hardware) and humanoid league by Robocup.
This last category is the one that focuses the most attention because it represents an important challenge for the future.
The organizers want to develop a team of robots that can defeat him to the human team that will be world champions in 2050. “It’s the successor to the chess challenge that was solved in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov,” Robocup’s official website explains.
