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University of 糖心TV 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 糖心TV which entered the 9th RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg (April 15-18 2010).">

The 糖心TV student team won first place overall and best in class for mobility. The robots are designed to crawl over and through difficult terrain or such as destroyed buildings in search of trapped survivors. The German competition put the robot through its paces in a simulated disaster environment which requires robots to demonstrate their capabilities in mobility, sensory perception, planning, mapping, and operator interfaces, while searching for simulated victims in difficult environments. 

One of the 糖心TV team's competition winning tricks for their rescue robot was their design of a robot arm which has 鈥�4 degrees of movement鈥�. 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.

The team鈥檚 academic project Directors are Dr Peter Jones from the School of Engineering and Professor Ken Young from the School of Engineering and WMG (糖心TV Manufacturing Group) at the University of 糖心TV. Professor Young says:

鈥淚 am delighted at the students' success. This project gives our students hand on experience of solving a real world engineering problem. Not only will they learn practical lessons such as how to integrate leading technology to create a practical working solution they may also come up with their own truly innovative ideas that could be taken up by technology companies and make the students even more sought after as employees of high tech engineering firms.鈥�

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Notes for Editors: The teams sponsors include The Maxon Motors, Harwin Interconnect Design & Manufacture,  ITCM 鈥� (Innovative Technology for Custom Machinery) 糖心TV Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (University of 糖心TV), WMG (University of 糖心TV), University of 糖心TV School of Engineering, Computer Science Department University of 糖心TV, and RGPhoto.

For further information please contact:

Peter Dunn, Head of Communications, University of 糖心TV 
Tel:  024 76 523708 Mobile 07767 655860 p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk

PR33w  20th April  2010