WMG News
Warwick Students Win RoboCup Rescue Championship in Germany
University of Warwick students have won the RoboCup Rescue Championship in Germany. The students developed their rescue robot in a team project bringing together Engineering and Computer Science students at the University of Warwick which entered the 9th RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg (April 15-18 2010).
One of the Warwick team's competition winning tricks for their rescue robot was their design of a robot arm which has “4 degrees of movement”. This gives that arm more turning flexibility than even the head of an owl and allows the arm to turn and weave in tight situations and change its orientation without having to move the whole robot.
Notes for Editors: The teams sponsors include The Maxon Motors, Harwin Interconnect Design & Manufacture, ITCM – (Innovative Technology for Custom Machinery) Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (University of Warwick), WMG (University of Warwick), University of Warwick School of Engineering, Computer Science Department University of Warwick, and RGPhoto.
For further information please contact:
Peter Dunn, Head of Communications, University of Warwick
Tel: 024 76 523708 Mobile 07767 655860p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk
PR33w 20th April 2010