Team Chile returns from the robotics “World Cup” the FIRST Global Competition

Translated from Spanish.

Team Chile is the team that represented us from August 15 to 18 at Robotics “World Cup”, the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, in Mexico City. This event brings together young people from more than 160 countries to solve energy efficiency problems with robots created by them.

Each year, student teams compete to build robots that can weigh up to 54 kilos. The teams are given a standard set of pieces and they are told the details of the game at the beginning of January. From there, they give themselves six weeks to build a competitive robot, which can operate autonomously, as well as when guided by Wireless controls to perform the tasks of the game.

In the 2018 version of the most important youth robotics event of the year, Team Chile, supported by “Ingenious: science and technology for all” and the Fab Lab of the Catholic University, was the team that represented the country. Four young people from different schools and national robotics teams met for weeks to prepare the robot that represented us in the World Cup.

The final result of the team, made up of two women and two men, left them in the 88th place out of 161. In the matches they competed with 24 teams, but the total score is compared to the results of all the matches of all the teams. So they came to compete against more than 175 countries.

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