This year, in Robogames 2010, Humanoids AcYut 2 and AcYut 3 - developed by the students of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, have bagged four medals. Robogames 2010 was held at San Mateo Fairgrounds, California, US, from April 23-25, 2010. The AcYut 2 won one Gold Medal under the Sumo category, while the AcYut 3 won one Silver Medal under the Freestyle and one Silver Medal under the Sumo category and AcYut 3 won one Bronze Medal under the category, Kung Fu. BITS Pilani team secured the 6th position in the medal count.
Robogames 2010, which was the 7th Annual Robogames, the world’s largest robogames, featured combat robots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots, and androids that do Kung Fu. Approximately, 17 countries participated in the competition. In total there were 59 events, 489 entries and 508 robots. Interestingly, BITS Pilani was the only institution from India, which participated in the Robogames 2010.
BITS Pilani four members of AcYut’s team who participated in this year’s Robogames were: Ms Sushma Vallabhaneni (Team Leader), MrAkash Gupta, MrTushar Agrawal and Mr Viveka Nopani. Further, Prof R K Mittal Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who guided the project, also informed that the AcYut team is going to participate in the 7th Korea Robot Festival 2010, which is to be held in Korea on May 14 -15, 2010.
