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Coimbatore
Amrita University students win five awards in Singapore
March 4, 2016
A robot that climbs coconut trees was among the five award-winning creations of the students of the Amrita University at a competition held in Singapore recently.
While the coconut tree climbing robot won the Best Mechanical Design award, a staircase-cleaning robot, room-cleaning robot, a gesture-based navigational robot, and a hand-orthosis robot for stroke patients were among the award winners at the OMRG Asia 2016 Competition, where 20 teams from various countries participated. The OMRG Asia 2016 (One Moment of Robot Glory Asia) was organized by the EDU Studio Solutions of Singapore.
The robotic coconut-tree climber, the hand-orthosis robot for stroke patients, the gesture-based navigational robot and staircase-cleaning robot bagged prizes in the open category. The autonomous room-cleaning robot won the second prize in the Under-18 category.
The coconut-tree climbing robot, named Amaran, was declared the “Best Mechanical Design.” ClePa, the staircase cleaning robot, was declared the “Best Marketable Design.”
Of the several universities from Asia which participated in the OMRG contest, Amrita was the only one to win more than two prizes.
The robots were designed by students as part of the university’s Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. HuT director Dr. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam said that the university has plans to develop the robots further and launch them in the commercial market.
