Polish robots did very well in Vienna

RobotChallenge 2012: March 10-11, 2012 in Vienna:


robotchallenge.org/home/

The Poles, defending champions from last year won a total of 13 medals, including five gold, five silver and three bronze! A total of 286 robots from 24 countries fought each other in 14 categories, such as Line Follower, Sumo in several versions, and the most spectacular - Air Race.

Preliminary medal count

(Poland 5 5 3) (Austria 2 2 3) (Czech Republic 2 1 1) (Latvia 2 1 0) (Slovakia 2 0 1) (Germany 1 1 0) (Estonia 0 1 0) (Romania 0 1 0) (Sweden 0 0 2) (Switzerland 0 0 1) (Turkey 0 0 1)

See also this page in Polish:

robotyka.com/fundacja_wiadomosc.php/wiadomosc.388/robotchallenge-2012-polskie-roboty-znowu-nie-do-pobicia-relacja-z-wiedenskiego-turnieju-robotow

Thanks for the news.

Poles are fekking clever guys. :):):):)

Top stuff!
Did Poland ever have a show called Robot wars? :)

A pleasure to come with good news from time to time.


I do not know anything about that, but Polish scientists and engineers of Wrocław University of Technology have produced amazing FLASH (Mobile Dexterous Social Robot) with EMYS head capable of demonstrating quite a range of human-like expressions. Flash project is founded via European research project LIREC.

lirec.eu
lirec.ict.pwr.wroc.pl/index1.php (Webpage of the Polish LIREC team project with several videos to watch)

You can also get them bundled directly on youtube here
youtube.com/watch?v=o8kf14SZkaQ&list=UUqGuu20BNOFGJcmxaca0oEw&index=1&feature=plcp
The first video is very nice - informative yet funny, but there are also some lovely moments elsewhere too, when FLASH flirts with a young woman, or demonstrates his approval of another girl passing by.

I said "his" rather the "its" since I am already captured by his anthropomorphic capabilities :-))

They have actually contributed very little to science/engineering in proportion to their population. Just saying...

So we are making up for that .....

Don`t be such a wet blanket. :):):):)

Very good! Young minds at work, bravo.

Nice job by the Poles! It's soooooo much cooler and motivating to see young people succeeding and taking pride in what they know and can do as opposed to the emptiness of western teen aspirations. Their parents must be very proud:)