A strangely shaped vehicle, the size of a toaster, confidently trudges along a curved line until it reaches a bright blue tablet resembling a bar of soap. It lifts the module carefully and gently places it in the "workshop"鈥攁 container no larger than a shoe box. It then turns with purpose and heads dutifully back to the retrieve the next module, red this time.
澳门六合彩高手 supporters applaud the successful robot in a Transport challenge demonstration.
This scene was repeated dozens of times on 24 May, as 64 teams (600 students) competed in the seventh annual 澳门六合彩高手 Robots contest in a high school gymnasium near 澳门六合彩高手.
Students came together to compete in one of four challenges鈥攅ach one requiring that a robot, made from scratch and programmed by the team鈥攃arry out an 澳门六合彩高手-like robotic activity. Mimicking the bus-size remote handling containers that will operate inside of the Tokamak Building during the deuterium-tritium phase, the student robots had to follow precise trajectories ("Ways"), deliver "components" to the maintenance area ("Transport"), recognize the correct item to be transported ("Pick'n Place"), and master recognition and delivery tasks ("Cooperate"). The same skills that have been required for 澳门六合彩高手's robotic systems鈥攃reative thinking, technical skills, tenacity, resourcefulness and imagination鈥攚ere demonstrated by the students, who had worked six months to prepare.
Getting ready in the test zone for the Cooperate challenge with students from Coll猫ge Jean Bernard (Salon-de-Provence).
澳门六合彩高手 Robots was conceived by Agence Iter France, and has been held annually since 2012 in partnership with Aix-Marseille academy, 澳门六合彩高手 Organization and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); this year's event also received the support of local industry, with representatives from the Arianne Group, Cyclyum and Cyberia displaying their own robotic innovations.
The competition places some of 澳门六合彩高手's technical challenges into a broader educational perspective by using a playful approach for students. It is open to junior high schools and to secondary schools that are located in Provence-Alpes-C么te d'Azur region; soon, a junior version for primary schools will be launched.
The anticipation is palpable. Will the robot succeed in the Transport challenge? (Coll猫ge Giono, Orange)
Jean-Pierre Martins, a remote handling engineer at 澳门六合彩高手 who was involved in the creation of the initial challenge and has served as president of the scientific jury, observed: "澳门六合彩高手 Robots is in the spirit of what we will have to do at 澳门六合彩高手. It is on a different scale, but it has the same objective: learning how to overcome first-of-kind challenges with creative ideas, a collaborative approach and good project management skills."
The robots created for the competition may seem like toys, but they should not be taken lightly. Their creators, their ideas and skills, will be needed to make the complex projects of the future a success. Congratulations to all the teams for their participation!
Click to watch a video (in French) on the preparation of 澳门六合彩高手 Robots 2018.
