6 Egyptian students build a water-powered robot
A team of 6 students at the Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, in southern Egypt, managed to build a water-powered robot and won fifth place in an international competition held in the United States.
The team calls itself (ASME Assiut), and won fifth place globally after competing with 20 teams from international universities in the (SDC) competition, affiliated with the American International Organization of Mechanical Engineers in the world.
Karim Salah, a member of the winning team, says that the competition is one of a group of competitions organized by (ASME), an organization with a student branch in which lectures and assistance are provided to students of all kinds, including competitions every year among world universities.
He added that the competition requires the design of a robot or a vehicle that works with a clean and renewable energy source, whether fully or partially, and whether the source is solar energy, air, pressure, water and others.
He continues: "Every year the rules of the competition change, as well as the source of energy, but the goal is one, which is to rely on a renewable energy source to reap the greatest possible benefit from it."
And he added, "This year, the competition was based on manufacturing a robot whose dimensions do not exceed 50 x 50 x 50 cm in length, width and height, and that it moves a certain distance using water only so that as well as transfers it from one place to another, and after it reaches the place of unloading, it is filled again and the journey is repeated."
Karim explained the idea of the robot working with water, saying: “The idea is very simple and is based on the descent of water from the tank above the movement turbine and it is wrapped, and the turbine is connected to a box connected in turn to the tires and moves them.
He explained, "After all the water descends into the lower tank, we open the valve to empty the water and place an alternative amount of it in the upper tank, repeat the cycle, and so on.
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