ASU Hosts Exhibition “Robots Help People”

The Exhibition has been held at the Center of Viable Technologies in Electronics & Robotics. Visitors were shown a model of an “intelligent home” with voice control, a rescue robot equipped with a controlled camera to search for people under ruins, a robot that works as a flaw detector and that is able to twist around a gas pipe and move along it to look for fissures, etc. All those robots have been developed by staff of the Center and by our students. A collector-free electric engine has become of the most remarkable exhibits; it has been manufactured at the Prototyping Laboratory of the Technopark of ASU by 2nd-year-students of our Department of Physics & Technology.
 

A presentation of students’ viable ideas and projects has been held, too. Almost twenty proposals could be discussed by anyone who was at the Exhibition.

 

Contests between robots produced by our 1st-year-students have been held. Five electronic creatures were to cover one complete circle along a black twisted line. It was the Sketch team that has won the nomination “Speed”. The 2nd place has been won by the robot of the Crabs team; while the 3rd place was gained by the Driller team. After the speed contest, the discussion was held in social networks, where users could vote for the best design of all the five robots. It was the Driller team that has won the vote.

 

According to the event organizers, the exhibition has been successful; it has received a very good feedback from its visitors and participants. The gained experience is to be applied in arrangement of events of a larger scale.

Russian original information source: Yuri Garanov  (the Press Service of ASU)

Russian original photo source: the Department of Physics & Technology of ASU

Translated by E.I. Glinchevskiy (the Center of Translation Studies & Conference Interpreting “ASTLINK” of ASU