A high school team made up of Indian-American students from New Jersey, along with two other teams, won first place in a tough category at the RoboCup 2016 World Championship held in Leipzig, Germany June 30-July 4.
The theme of the 20th RoboCup was Focus on the Future – combining intelligent robots with practical uses to show how society’s future challenges can be met. Some 3,500 participants from 45 countries and regions competed in 17 disciplines.
Cedar Prep School, Somerset, N.J., which earlier won the U.S. championship, represented Team USA in Germany.
Led by coach Neetika Bhalla, the team, represented by Arjun Agrawal, Aarav Gupta, Nitasha Gupta and Nivritti Mantha, competed in the category RoboCupJunior OnStage which involved programming the robots to dance to music using a broad range of technologies to create the performance. Jury members evaluated the teams on the complexity of the robots, their programming, and the technical implementation of the performance.
There were two competitions at this level – Primary Individual and Primary Super Team.
In the Primary Super Team category, the Cedar Hill Prep Team USA, named “Master Dancers,” was paired with Mexico and Taiwan. This Super Team had 24 hours to work together and program their robots to a specific task without any assistance from their coaches or mentors. The Super Team called themselves “Olympic Bots.” They competed against 5 other Super Teams and beat them to win 1st place at this World Competition.
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