29 Oct Young Moroccans take part in a beach cleaning robot project at the FIRST Global Championship

(Translated from Arabic)

A young Moroccan team took part in the third edition of the FIRST Global Challenge Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Championship 2019, which was held in Dubai from October 24 to 27, in a project to clean beaches using robots.

The project, which featured 1,500 competitors from 191 countries, was to clean the beaches using robots capable of picking up, disposing of garbage of small and large sizes and putting them into boxes in a simple and efficient way.

Yassin Lahlou, a 17-year-old team member, said the robot could maneuver through unstable surfaces like beaches, for example, to pick up 15 to 20 smaller pieces of garbage, including chocolate wrappers, cans and plastic cans, at a time. He raises it to a height of about 70 cm, then it can be easily disposed.

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