02 Sep UAE students to showcase robot that detects food impurities at ‘Robotics Olympics’ in Athens

A group of students from the UAE, who have built a robot that can detect microplastics in food, are now headed to Athens in Greece where they will represent the country at an Olympics-style robotics competition. The team of over 22 youngsters from various schools in Dubai have been designing, building and programming the robot for the competition for over three months now. The international robotics competition called FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) will be held later this month.