Mahanakorn University’s search for Thailand’s representative to compete in the RMRC (Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge) League of the World-Class Robotics Competition, RoboCup 2022. The first ever RMRC Thailand Robotics Championship, applicants compete under the mission: Robotics for Disaster Relief and Rescue, where these robots attempt to explore and assist disaster victims.
Mahanakorn University of Technology (MUT) invites you to participate in the RMRC RoboCup (Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge) Thailand championship, the first time ever in Thailand. Win prizes pool over 30,000 baht and 5,000 baht sponsorship per team. The RMRC is known as the Robo-Cup-Junior Rescue competition for ages 13-19 and is one of the longest standing global RoboCup sub-competitions where the robot’s missions are to explore and rescue disaster victims. The robots go through different series of landscapes and are to have the ability to pick up materials as well as the ability to detect through image processing or any other methods.
Competition participants will be trained in intense workshops to creatively build their robots. The young innovator winner will be selected to represent Thailand for the upcoming RMRC RoboCup global event where Thailand will be hosting its first ever event in this particular series. The event is hosted in a collaboration between The RoboCup, the Engineering Society of Thailand and Mahanakorn University of Technology.
Qualifications of applicants
Age: 13 – 19 years old
Team of 2 – 6 people with an additional 1 – 2 supervisor
Support & Rewards
5,000.- baht sponsorships for participating teams (five thousand baht only) for 10 teams. (Only the top 10 teams who have also participated in 2 workshops. Under any circumstances that these teams does not participate in the finals, all received funds shall be refunded to the organizers)
The winning team in which its robot has successfully performed all assigned tasks shall receive the prize money and represent Thailand in the RMRC RoboCup (Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge).
Rewards
The winning prize is 12,000 baht (twelve thousand baht) in cash as well as a trophy and a certificate
2nd place prize is 8,000 baht (eight thousand baht) in cash as well as a trophy and a certificate
3rd place consists of 2 prizes of 5,000 baht (five thousand baht only) in cash with a trophy and a certificate for each team
Note: All participating teams in the project shall receive a certificate. The decision made by the committee is final.