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About ABU Robocon

ABU-ROBOCON is an international robotics event organized by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.
Teams from over 25 countries from Asia participate in this Event.
The competition is similar to Olympics where every year there is new host nation, which gives a new theme and we have to build robots based on the theme.
Themes are based on the culture and tradition of the Host Nation. Robocon provides a platform for the countries to showcase their talent to the world through robotics.
The national winning team represents its country in the Internationals

National DD Robocon Event

For the selection of the best team from India, a National robocon Event is organised by Doordarshan, India hosted by IIT-Delhi.
More than 80 colleges , including IITs, NITs participate in this competition.
This Event is live Broadcasted on Television by DD Channel (Doordarshan Channel).
Every year the competition takes place at IIT-Delhi.

3 Stages of Competition

❑Stage 1

ALL teams are supposed to send a detail technical documentation which includes the justification for proposed robot designs. The documentation is evaluated out of 100 points.
Based on the score, selected teams advance to round 2.

❑Stage 2.

Here teams are evaluated on the basis of videos of actual working robots, performing different tasks as per the rulebook.

❑Stage 3.

Based on the score of Stage 1 and Stage 2, top 26 teams are selected for the final one-on-one competition at IIT-Delhi.

Robocon 2022 Highlights

Contest Theme “LAGORI”

In 2022, ABU Robocon meets his 21th birthday. Let the robots companioning with us for 21 years. "LAGORI" is a traditional etiquette and game in ancient INDIA. The game is between two teams- red and blue. Each team has the luxury of using two bots namely- Robot 1(R1) and throwing robot(R2). The collective task of the following two robots of the teams is peaking and piling the lagori using balls restricting the opponent's bots from doing the same.

Robocon 2021 Highlights

Last year the competition was hosted by China and the contest was to play Arrow Throwing” game using two robots.
We received 100/100 in the first stage and 77/100 in stage second of competition.
We ranked 4th in India and were awarded with "PROMISING PERFORMER AWARD".