Russian schoolchildren win medals at World Robot Olympiad-2017

Russian schoolchildren have won the World Robot Olympiad-2017 in Costa Rica, TASS reports. Young engineers from Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok and other Russian cities took part at WRO-2017.

School national team of ITMO University (Saint Petersburg) presented Forester robot to organizers and judges of the Olympiad, which was invented to take care of forests. It can stride, ride and gather information about condition of trees autonomously. Moreover, Forester’s neuronet developed by Russian schoolchildren can define a type of tree. This ability amazed the judges of WRO-2017 who gave the first place in Open category to Russians.

The national team including Gleb Zagarskikh, Daniil Nechaev and Maxim Mikhailov took the victory at the analogous competitions in Russia.

Coach of senior schoolchildren Igor Lositsky have noted that schoolchildren found a creative way for making a presentation about the robot. Igor Lositsky acted a forest guard who had been gathering information for ages roaming in the forest. Then he saw the Forester and understood that the robot would handle this task much better.

Following the results of two-day competitions, three out of four teams of Vladivostok Center of Robotic Development took respectable prize places.

Russian schoolchildren at WRO-2017 got gold at all three age groups of the main category and all the three medal places at younger group.

Russkiy Mir