The "NHK Student Robocon 2021" was held in which university students from all over the country competed for technical skills and ideas with handmade robots, and Nagaoka University of Technology in Niigata Prefecture won the championship.
This year's tournament was held at the gymnasium in Ota Ward, Tokyo, with no spectators, and teams from 16 universities nationwide that passed the preliminary screening participated.
The competition is a battle format in which the robot shoots an arrow at a pot with five, and the opponent's robot knocks down the arrow or shakes the base of the pot to get in the way, and each team attacks and defends. Operate the two robots in charge of.
You win if you put more arrows in the pots for the 3 minute time limit, or two arrows in every pot.
In the final, Nagaoka University of Technology won the championship by putting two arrows in every pot in just 34 seconds from the start, and decided to participate in the "ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest" to be held in China in December. rice field.
Mr. Kazuto Nakajima, the leader of Nagaoka University of Technology, said, "Thanks to not only ourselves but also the alumni of the team and various people at the university, we were able to win the championship. I want to thank you. "
The tournament will be broadcast on NHK General TV in early December.