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Budding techies vie for honours

BERHAMPUR: Budding technocrats from different parts of the country and Orissa locked horns to test their technical and managerial skills at the three-day Sankalp-08 that concluded in the National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) on Sunday.

The concluding event of this techno-cultural fest was the finals of ‘Apocalypse’ a competition of robotics. Twenty-nine teams with their indigenous robots had taken part in this competition.

The competition was in two segments. One was for manually-controlled robots while the other was for automated robots.

The robots were tested for their ability to perform different tasks. At times they were to move through mazes, follow a defined path or line, detect objects like light sources and perform tasks at different modes of signal.

In this event the participants were given points for robots’ physical properties, plans of its actions, efficient control of its mechanisms, use of sensors to provide feedback to the controlling program and ensuring safety of its behaviour. Teams from the NIST Robotics Club excelled in these events.

An electronic expo was also part of the three day event. Young technocrats tried their hands at hardware modelling for specific project needs and their working models were displayed in the expo.

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