Students compete to create robots that can clean from rivers to space

KOLKATA: Students from across the country came together in Kolkata to compete to represent India at the International Robot Olympiad. The competition, organized by the National Council of Science Museums, gave different robotic assignments to students of differing age groups.
The 12-year-old students who took part in the competition were asked to create a cleaning robot. The entries ranged from robots that can clean up garbage from roads to river cleaning robots to ones that are meant to be used to clean up space debris.
For instance, Nabya, Angs and Soham, from Mumbai Nehru Science Centre, made a model of a robot that can identify hospital wastes and collect them.
Sujit and Sreecharan from Chennai’s DAV Public School, Velachery, created a model of a robot from electronic waste to be used for waste and garbage collection.
Students from Bhopal designed a robot that can be used to recover waste from rivers. Akash, Anushka and Rohit, the students who came up with the river cleaner, said the amount of waste dumped in rivers should be a concern for all.
Not just garbage bins, streets and rivers, the students took the cleaning robots to an entirely higher level altogether. Vinod Kumar and Keshab from Chennai created a prototype of a machineto clear space debris.
And these were just the 12-year-olds. Older students were tasked with coming up with robots that can play football.
The National Council of Science Museums has been holding competitions for the past three months to identify the students who will represent India at the International Robot Olympiad.
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