Georgian team wins third place at international robotics competition

Georgian team has placed third at the international robotics competition FIRST Global held in Mexico.

At the final stage the teams of 48 countries competed in three-team alliances. The Georgian team was united with the UK and Qatar in an alliance which secured third place. First place was taken by the alliance of Romania, Singapore and Germany.

“Third place among 193 countries is a good result. We have overcome several difficulties before the competition. Our robot got ost on the way by the airline and we had to reconstruct it from scratch. Accordingly, we did not even expect to be in the top three and would rather focus on just being in the top ten,” Georgian team members Sopo Kevlishvili, Lika Mikhelashvili and Nika Gegechkori, students from a private school based in Tbilisi, said.

The robot Vano they created is managed via tablet and can move, carry things from one point to a second and perform several other activities.

FIRST Global organises a yearly international robotics challenge to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) among youth across the world. This year, the competition’s major topic was renewable energy, sun panels and wind turbines, through the use of which robots should have been able to generate energy.