A student team from the Emirati school (consisting of 10 students in the ninth grade) created a robot that is used to transport and arrange things in a coordinated manner, and it can be controlled remotely using the «remote control».
One of the members of the team, student Abdulaziz Saud Al-Hamoudi, told «Emirates Today»: “The team qualified with this robot in the national competition organized during the month of January, to the global competition VEX-IQ for the robot in the United States of America, which was held during the period from April 21 To the third of last March, and we achieved second place in it for all the participating teams. ”
He added that the Emirati team was composed of 10 students, in addition to it: Muhannad Muhammad Al-Kindi, Ahmed Tarish Al-Dhahiri, Saif Muhammad Al-Balushi, Muhammad Khalifa Al-Hawqani, Zayed Abdullah Al-Qaidi, Hamad Khaled Al-Ashkhry, Muhammad Abdullah Al-Dhaheri, Muhammad Ali Al-Arab, and Issa Omar Mustafa, From different schools nationwide, as well as the project supervisor, Yahya Mosameh.
Al-Hamoudi explained the robot’s work that it is used to carry things from one place to another and arrange them in an orderly manner, and within a short time, without relying on the human element, which leads to rapid completion, pointing out that the goal of achieving the robot is to increase the control ability of students, and develop their programming skills And technical.
He pointed out that the competition relies on competition with approximate models to complete the work by the robot, by using it to transfer the cylinders from one place to another, in a period of time that does not exceed a minute, and the winning robot in the competition is the one that transmits the largest possible number during this specific period, indicating that Training students on programming, their robot achievement, and their participation in the national competition, which took six months.