SCUT's student team captured the first place in the Southern  Division of the RoboMasters 2017, a national robotics competition for college  students, breaking into the Grand Final of the championship as a most  competitive seed team.

The races of the Southern Division took place from May 11 to 13, when  nearly 200 robots from 17 universities in the southern region of China gathered  at SCUT's Stadium at the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, a front line of  robot wars armed by next-generation intelligent machines and some of the world's  most brilliant young engineering minds.

Being recognized as one of the leading robotics competitions around the  globe, RoboMasters aims to provide a nationwide venue for science and  engineering students to contribute their creativity and skills outside the  virtual world of online gaming.

In this year's competition, besides one base robot and one hero robot,  every team had to operate on three infantry robots, one drone and one  engineering robot to attack the opponent. Whoever conquered the opponent’s base  within seven minutes would win the combat.

Student teams from universities across the country were divided into four  divisions by regions. The final of the Southern Division kicked off on May 13  between SCUT and Shenzhen University, and ended with the former claiming a 2-0  victory to secure the division’s top seat of entering the Grand Final that will  be held in Shenzhen this July.

The annual events of RoboMasters are jointly organized by the Communist  Youth League of China, the All-China Students' Federation and the Shenzhen  Municipal Government, and hosted by Da-Jiang Innovations Science and Technology  Co., Ltd., commonly referred to as DJI. Last year's campaign attracted 228  teams, over 7,000 participants from 160 universities. Beyond the arena, it is  also an innovative attempt to provide college students with the chance to  combine theory with practice outside the classroom.

Sources from the University News Center and the RoboMasters 2017

Written and edited by Xu Peimu

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