Mysuru: The Third National level Robo Wrestling competition — Robo Rikishi – 2018 — sponsored by Robotics Club, NIE, was organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru, recently.
Dr. K.R. Prakash, Professor and M. Rakesh, Asst. Professor, were the Faculty Coordinators and organisers of the event.
V, Sanjaya Kumar, Director, Mainsol Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mysuru, inaugurated the event.
He addressed the gathering about how practical skills would improve the quality of education and he insisted upon bringing more robotics project based learning courses into the curriculum. Also, expressed his view on how students can sharpen their competitive spirit and product designing skills through participating in technical events like ‘Robo Rikishi.’
Dr. L. Krishnamurthy, Professor and Dr. T.N. Shridhar, Professor and Controller of Examinations, were present during inauguration.
‘Robo Rikishi – 2018’ is a three level robotic competition — with pushing maximum weight of 8 kg, clearing hurdles in the track test which was designed with many hurdles such as sand pits, brick maze, gravels pit and ‘Robo Wars.’ The participants have to clear each level in order to move forward to next level.
Ten teams from various engineering colleges all over Karnataka participated in the competition out of which eight teams cleared the first round that was weight pushing test.
The second round was the track test which created competitive spirit among the students as the robot should pass through the track and clear the hurdles. Seven teams were able to clear this level.
Prize winners and participants of ‘ROBO RIKISHI-2018,’ National level Robo Wrestling competition,
are seen with (sitting from left) V. Sanjaya Kumar, Director, Mainsol Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mysuru,
G. Madan, Regional Coordinator, KBITS, M. Rakesh, Asst. Professor and H.P. Vinodkumar, Asst.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIE Mysuru.
The last round was the sumo event where one-on-one Robo wrestling match was conducted between the teams and six were qualified for finals.
Two teams from Post Graduation of Industrial Automation and Robotics of NIE were able to secure first and second place.
For the third place, all the robots which were not qualified for the finals were placed in the arena and all the robots fought among themselves last robot standing was announced as the winner. The third place was secured by team from NIE.
This post was published on May 29, 2018 6:34 pm