The Lac Hong University team who won the 2017 Asia-Pacific robot contest (Robocon), bringing Vietnam its sixth championship (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)Hanoi (VNA) - A group of university students from thesouthern province of Dong Nai have won the Asia-Pacific robot contest, known asRobocon, held in Tokyo, Japan.
The victory for the Lac Hong University students was the sixthtime a Vietnamese team has won the contest.
This year’s competition featured 16 teams from 15 countries andregions against each other in a “landing disc” contest, with teams required tobuild robots that can throw flying discs to hit beach balls from seven spots ona field.
In the final round, the Vietnamese team defeated a Malaysian team,with the Vietnamese robot finishing the round with a perfect score in just 1minute and 20 seconds.
Japan and Thailand claimed second and third position,respectively.
Vietnam has entered the competition every year since its firstedition in 2002.
Three of the five previous championships were claimed by Ho ChiMinh City University of Science and Technology (2002, 2004, 2006), while Lac HongUniversity won in 2014, and Hung Yen University of Technology and Educationtriumphed the following year.
Next year Robocon will be held in Vietnam, themed “Throwing con”– inspired by a popular folk game among northern ethnic minority people duringfestivals, in which, players throw a ball through a ring on top of a 15-20mtall bamboo stick.-VNA
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