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IIT-Delhi to represent India at international robotics event

IIT-Delhi to represent India at international robotics event

Come August, a bunch of 20 students from IIT-Delhi will swing robots in Hanoi, Vietnam to win an international Robotics competition. In the five years of the event, this is the first time that IIT-Delhi is going to represent India at the event.

The Robotics team this week registered a win over more than 25 competing colleges from across the country, including three IITs to emerge as national champion. Financially supported by IIT-Delhi administration, the team has developed three robots — one manual and two automated — over the last 12 months for the competition with a budget of around Rs 2 lakh.

Robocon International, organised every year by Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union of which Doordarshan is a member, is considered the biggest robotics event for under-graduate students in the Asia-pacific region. While Vietnam has been a winner for the first three years of the event, India has never gone beyond quarterfinals.

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