After a whole year of preparation by the participating teams, it’s finally the day of Robocon Hong Kong 2024. Over a hundred tertiary students exuded their youthful vigour and passion for robots, striving to qualify for the international competition held in Vietnam as the representative of Hong Kong, China!

This episode will first introduce the remaining team, Team E, then feature rounds of intense robot battles from the quarter-final onwards. It will conclude by revealing to the audience which team won and represented Hong Kong, China in the competition in Vietnam, endeavouring to be the strongest team in the Asia-Pacific region!

The theme of the 21st Robocon Hong Kong was developed by Vietnam, the host country of ABU Robocon this year, which was inspired by the famous terraced cultivation in the country when designing the series of robotics tasks.

Local tertiary students implanted artificial intelligence (AI) applications in their robots and trained them for sowing, transplanting, and harvesting. In the last episode, we have had a good look at the mechanical design of the robots of Group A and Group B, and watched 3 rounds of group competitions. In this episode, there will be the introduction of Group C and Group D, as well as the presentation of some more intense and breathtaking robot battles!

The 21st Robocon Hong Kong was successfully completed in June this year. For the Hong Kong region, a total of 14 teams from eight tertiary institutions had competed for a place at the international competition!

The theme of this year’s competition was developed by Vietnam, the host country of ABU Robocon this year. The host country drew inspiration from its famous terraced cultivation when designing the series of robotic tasks, namely sowing, transplanting and harvesting. The focus of the competition was that one of the robots had to be fully automated. What were the levels of the robots that could be designed by our tertiary students?

The first three episodes will provide the audience with an in-depth glimpse into the institutions’ workshops where the robots were made, and reveal step by step which team could win the championship in the local competition to qualify for the ABU Robocon.