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Spotting ‘the ultimate engineer’!

— Photo: K. R. Deepak

War zone!: GITAM students participating in a robo fight competition held as part of a national level event in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

VISAKHAPATNAM: It was all about wrestling and fighting. The ‘robo fighters’ fought it out to assess who was ‘the ultimate engineer’ at the two-day robotics workshop conducted by the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering of GITAM as part of their national level event called ‘Interface’. Imagine a student’s delight when he or she is able to experiment with robotic equipment, use their utilities for doing various functions. All this during exclusively allotted time to use the robots and robotics systems! The workshop was brimming with energy as around 160 students from various colleges of the State participated in this venture, which involved ‘Hands On’, involving the assembling of elements to make a robot. “It is an excellent platform to learn the basics of robotics.

The workshop opened a whole world of opportunities in this arena. It’s a different experience to take on the world with self-made machines,” said A. Bhargav, a third year student of the department.

The event that was held in collaboration with Bangalore Robotics Society concluded on Tuesday, with lectures about elements of robotics, microprocessors, microcontrollers and programming.

Robotics engineers design robots, maintain them, develop new applications for them and conduct research to expand the potential of robotics. It is a rapidly developing field, with advances in computing constantly opening up new possibilities for robotics applications. Visionary robotics engineers can work on designing experimental mobile robots, with applications ranging from medical and military use to designs aimed at creating vehicles capable of piloting themselves on other planets.

The highlights of the event were the competitions like ‘robo races’, ‘window detectors’ and ‘robo fighters’ that judged the skills of the budding engineers and tested the dexterity and precision of the participants. The one with a more powerful and robust machine defeated the opponents at the ‘robo fighters’ event.

The students took up the challenge to create a powerful robot that deftly manoeuvred through a series of checkpoints and hurdles at the racetrack and emerged victorious at the ‘robo race’. The joy grew further when the team was able to change the parameters to make the robots perform particular manoeuvres, even complex ones!

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