The 2022 season competition took place under the motto “My Robot My Friend”.
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Robots are becoming increasingly important in a wide variety of areas of life. While they have long been an integral part of the automation of industrial production, they are also gradually conquering our everyday lives. Many households now have robots that take over the vacuuming of the home, for example. In the 2022 season, areas of life will be explored in which robots will play a more important role in the future and act as companions or friends to humans.
RoboMission – Elementary
The Garden Robot
There are numerous applications for robots at home and in everyday household chores. One example is robots that can perform various tasks in our garden. There are robots that clean ponds, sow plants or water flowers.
On the Elementary age group game field, the robot takes on the task of mowing the lawn and collecting weeds. At the same time, the robot must watch out for ladybugs that are in the robot’s path and bring them to safety.
RoboMission – Junior
The Rescue Robot
A rescue robot assists rescuers in an emergency situation with dangerous or difficult tasks. Such robots must be able to withstand heat, overcome rubble or stairs, locate injured persons, transport hazardous goods and create situational pictures of unknown environments. The junior game field deals with some of these tasks.
In this game field, the robot has the task of helping and extinguishing a fire in a factory, transporting dangerous chemicals and providing the emergency services with information about the position of people in the factory. At the same time, the robot has to overcome unfamiliar terrain on its way to the factory.
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RoboMission – Senior
The Care Robot
There are numerous activities in which robots can support or enrich us in our everyday lives. Robots can guide us through a museum in a creative way or help us with tedious or strenuous tasks. In the senior age group game field, the robot takes on the role of a nursing and transport robot in a hospital. His job is to take laundry to the hospital’s own laundry, bring water to various rooms and play with the patients. At the same time, the robot has to watch out for nursing staff and visitors as it makes its way through the hospital corridors.
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Future Innovators
My Robot – My Friend
Robotics and artificial intelligence are becoming an increasingly important part of current research and science. Continuous progress in the field of robotics is enabling new robots to operate better in the human environment. The combination of robotics and artificial intelligence can change the world and, in particular, the human environment.
Some people see more dangers than opportunities in direct human contact with robots in everyday life. The challenges of the future will be to exploit the opportunities and make the interaction between robots and humans helpful and safe.
Service robots already perform partially or fully automated services. They help people in difficult environments or with monotonous or dangerous tasks. As helpers and friends, robots take on a variety of tasks to relieve people of time-consuming tasks and mental stress and to increase human comfort.
However, the development is far from complete. What other tasks can robots take on in the future? How can we ensure that robots act as helpers in everyday life?
We need your idea for your robot friend!
The robot mission
For the WRO Future Innovators category, the teams have the task of developing a robot model that represents the robot as a friend and helper in people’s daily lives. The teams can choose one of the three areas (1, 2, 3), but they can also work on a project that focuses on a combination of these three areas.
| 1. robot at home |
There are many tasks in your household that need to be done regularly. Robots can take over work processes independently or assist people with tasks in or around the home. Perhaps you already carry out household tasks yourself where a robot could simplify the work processes.
As the robot works in the household in the direct vicinity of humans, mutual consideration is particularly important. The robot should act in such a way that it does not endanger humans and vice versa.
We are looking for robotic solutions that can take over household tasks to relieve the burden on the people who live there.
| 2. Robots in rescue services |
Every rescue poses new challenges for the people involved. In addition to extinguishing fires, think about rescuing people or animals from dangerous situations or recovering cars. The protection of the emergency services always comes first. During rescue operations in dangerous or inaccessible environments, the rescue may be delayed if the situation is not safe for the rescue team.
We are looking for robotic solutions that can support and relieve the emergency services or carry out rescue tasks independently.
| 3. robots in the healthcare sector |
Healthcare is an important part of our world. As soon as we feel unwell, suffer from injuries or need other help, we go to the doctor.
Working in the healthcare sector is often strenuous and requires a high level of concentration from employees. This applies to doctors’ surgeries, hospitals, nursing homes and all other areas of the healthcare sector.
However, care and consideration are required when dealing directly with people. A robot can help to improve the situation in the healthcare system or make work easier for healthcare staff. A robot can help to improve social interaction, it can fetch and deliver materials or even take on medical tasks.
We are therefore looking for robotic solutions that improve or support aspects of healthcare.
For all of the above sub-themes (robots at home, robots in rescue and robots in healthcare) you can find inspiration from the Sustainable Development Goals. There are several objectives that support the topic, depending on your project idea:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
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- General rules of the category Future Innovators
- Task
- Evaluation criteria
- Information for team and coach
Starter category
“Recycling”
Introduction
If products break or are no longer needed, valuable raw materials often end up as waste. That is why there are collection points for various raw materials and discarded products such as batteries, PET bottles, glass, waste paper, cardboard, green waste from the kitchen and garden and more at numerous locations. These products are then taken from the collection points to reprocessing plants and prepared for new uses. If the old products are not separated properly, they end up in household waste, from which raw materials and products that are difficult to recycle then have to be fished out, or which is incinerated along with the valuable raw materials.
This year’s challenge is to build a robot that can collect old products and materials and take them to the right collection and recycling points.
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