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The
Nirma Institute of Technology (NIT) team has emerged as the winner
in the National round of the Robotics Contest recently held at IIT
Kanpur. The winning team of NIT, Ahmedabad would now participate
in the International Competition of Robots to be held in Japan on
August 31.
 Three
teams, one each from IIT Kanpur, NIT-Ahmedabad and Besent Institute
of Technology-Mumbai, participated in this event. Nirma won all
the four of its league matches scoring a full eight points, thus
advancing to the finals, IIT Kanpur, on the other hand, drew their
first match (0-0) and won the second match (4-0) against Besent
Institute, to face Nirma in the finals.
Nirma
then defeated IIT Kanpur 9-3 and 12-5 in straight games to win the
finals. The winning team would now be attending a grand “Reach
the Mount Fuji”—Tokyo Robocon competition in Japan. Dr
H V Trivedi, director, Nirma Institute of Technology, says “The
NIT team has proved that enthusiasm, dedication, perseverance and
sincere efforts of a team can acheive even the most difficult target
against all odds.”
India
would be one of 19 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, which will
compete at the Tokyo Robocon 2002. The objective of the Robocon
is to popularise the concept of Robotic games in order to upgrade
technological skills of engineering students in the region to match
that of advanced countries.
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