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Third year engineering students await the countdown for the final race.
LIFESTYLE
TUKS ROBOT Nine finalist teams Robots of all shapes and sizes took to the track.
SHOWDOWN of engineering students
hit the track for the ultimate
robot showdown as the highly anticipated
WINNERS! Annual TUKS Robot Race Day took place
recently, after being postponed in 2020
due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
ow in its eighth year, the taking place online. Students had to “Our Annual Robot Race Day
Annual TUKS Robot Race work remotely due to the ongoing provides a platform to stimulate
NDay, coordinated by the Covid-19 pandemic and, as such, curiosity and creativity, which
University of Pretoria’s Faculty of paper tracks were designed so that is crucial for the innovation and
Engineering, Built Environment they could be printed out on A4 entrepreneurship that a career in
and Information Technology, has pages and pasted together to allow engineering demands. The project
grown in leaps and bounds with the race to be attempted at home. guides aspiring engineers through
more students getting involved They then had to upload a video of
and showcasing their innovation, their MARV (Microcontroller-based
programming, and engineering Autonomous Robotic Vehicle)
skills. This year, more than 85 navigating the home track and
teams registered to compete for these video submissions served as
the title, with preliminary rounds the initial rounds of the race.
Professor Tania
Hanekom,
Function Head for
Undergraduate
Studies at the
University of
Pretoria, said that
providing world-
class education
to students is
what they strive
for across all
departments
and the Robot
Race Day is just
one of the ways
education is Robot Race Day official Elizabeth
Some last minute fine-tuning before the start of the final race. enhanced. Stanley with one of her robots.
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