Students play football using remote-controlled robots on mini-field
Students play football using remote-controlled robots on mini-field
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You may have watched Ronaldo, David Beckham and Baichung Bhutia display their dribbling skills on the football field, but definitely not seen school children playing football with robots.
In a robot exhibition held at Club Solaris, Kothrud, children from various schools in the state got together for robo soccer.
The robots were controlled by kids. There were three remote-controlled cars and seven balls on the field. To create obstacles, cylindrical shaped rods were placed at various spots. The cars had to cross the rods, carry forth the ball and put it in the goal net. Apart from the match, there was a robot exhibition too, where students got a chance to display their inventions.
The students, aged between 12 and 16 years, prepared special mechanisms that could be used in the future keeping in mind the rising needs of customers.
Tejas Mahajan (14) and Rohit Mishra (14) from Bishop's Co-Ed School, Kalyaninagar, had prepared an Amphibian Rover. When asked about the name, Rohit said, "We wanted to mechanise something that works on land as well as water and hence the name Amphibian Rover."
This mechanism can be used in car motors as well as in ships; it reduces time and emission too. Also, it can be started by any renewable source of energy, so it's environment-friendly too."
Another student, Tanmay Gore (16) from SK Thirani Junior College of Science and Commerce, Thane, had created an Electromagnetic Bot. "It's made keeping in mind how the industrial trash can be separated from the useful material. For example, in car crushing garages and shipping industries, once the waste is crushed, it gets separated by the electromagnetic system fitted inside which separates the magnetic waste," he said.
Describing his exhibit Greenhouse Bot, 15-year-old Kshitij Dhadekar, said: "It's a farmer's delight,"
He had prepared a water cum fertiliser sprayer truck which sprinkles as it passes through the fields. So the farmer does not have to make efforts to spray the fertiliser on his own. The whole event encouraged creativity in students and gave them a chance to unleash their potential.
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