Thailand wins world rescue robot competition for 8th time

BANGKOK, 7 July 2016 (NNT) - A team of students from King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok has won the World RoboCup Rescue 2016 in Germany, making Thailand 8-time world champion of the competition.

The team also won the Best in Class Mobility Award by beating rescue robots from 12 countries, including the U.S. and Germany.

The university's president Thirawut Bunyasophon said the competition provided a good opportunity for young people to exchange experience and learn about new technologies. The competition got harder every year and the contestants had to use higher technologies in order to win, said the president.

-- NNT 2016-07-07

Kudos on a remarkable achievement! Thai-bashers, take note. Now if they could just design a machine to rescue the EU and the world economy...

8 times in row! Wow that's really very good

But what kind of robot did they build? I would like to see it (in action).

Thailand has the IRAP robot but i can't find it on video.

Maybe it's in this video, i don't see them rescuing a person or so. Only talk too mud. And they are controlled by wires

Can anybody show us the IRAP who is the winner 2016?

Edited July 6, 201610 yr by Thian

Well done KMUT and the students involved. From what I have seen, KMUT is greatly under-rated and has much better academic standards in some areas than most of the "name" universities around.

This is a picture from their Facebook page



https://www.facebook.com/iraprobot/

Edited July 7, 201610 yr by Kasset Tak

Well done KMUT and the students involved. From what I have seen, KMUT is greatly under-rated and has much better academic standards in some areas than most of the "name" universities around.

Absolutely. Thailand's best unis, in my humble opinion of course, are the ones that focus on practical, hands-on education. Unfortunately these are exactly the ones that tend to be undervalued by the big academic surveys. I reckon a diploma from KMUT or Kasetsaat is worth about a dozen political science degrees from Chula.

This is a picture from their Facebook page

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https://www.facebook.com/iraprobot/

Impressive. Maybe the younger generation is smarter than we give the credit for.

Can it say "Input, Stephanie!" ?

Yeah,, yawn