Learning from mistakes

Robotex 2016 – how total failure comes to a very useful lesson

„Comparing our results with previous successful year, we have a lot o learn about,“ summarizes Uptime CTO Raimo Seero, what happened at Robotex 2016. „Our supported teams had not reached to top first three places (the best place was 6th), but nevertheless we have a very good feeling,“ is Raimo fulfilled. „We got some very good lessons.“

„Real innovation comes not from evolution, but from revolution,“ says Uptime CTO after a short thinking break, if asked, what gone wrong this time. „We tuned our robots better than last years – they ran LEGO line following cource at record time – in less than 13 secs, last year it was 21 seconds. But important lesson comes from italian teams. They took three best places with amazing 6-7 seconds results. This gave us a lesson, that it´s very important to think „outside the box“. It´s just not enough to fine tune your existing robot.“

Italian teams attended Robotex 2016 with some older LEGO robots – some details were even from 1990ies, they used diferent design and construction. Italians thought „outside the box“. Even if starting a robot from pushbutton took some seconds more than usual, their robot followed the line after that in amazing 6-7 seconds. All others left far behind. Speed and orientation was better thanks to a moving front head, that turned to left and right in curves.

„It´s great if You visit student´s robotic challenge contest and You can remember the old truth, that for being much better than others (for instance, if you are entering to foreign market with your company), it´s not enough to just do a bit better and try harder,“ adds Raimo Seero, „You must be ready to think completely „outside the box“ and take risks to be a lot better than others.“

Uptime supported 6 teams from Saku Center of Interest. Two of them competed at Folkrace, two at LEGO line following challenge and two at LEGO Sumo.

Uptime also supported Kostivere school girls team at Robotex 2016 LEGO line following challenge.

„This time the results were worse than last year,“ recognizes Kostivere team instructor Kuldar Saaremäe, „reason was delayed contest time, and because of that, zero ring was skipped and we had no opportunity to improve our results. But our team members liked the most fresh pies from Uptime right on time, when girls were tired and needed something for a snack.“

Kostivere LEGO robot received completely new design this year and partly re-programmed software. Kuldar Saaremäe concludes the experience with two lessons they learned: „ First, don´t change anything immediately before the contest. Second – You need at least two programs for robot just in case if something happens.“

The main goal was fulfilled in Robotex 2016 for all: interest to robotics – generated, robots were improved better than before and that´s just what contestants and supporters needed.

16 000 robotics enthusiasts – powerful platform for the future

European biggest and probably second largest robotics contest in the world Robotex had 16 000 visitors in Tallinn this year. Robotics challenge is held at Tallinn Technical University sports hall every year.

There were 23 contests with 912 robots from 20 countries, 1803 contestants were from Estonia, followed 145 from Latvia and 88 from Lithuania. Youngest contestant was 4 years old, oldest 69.

19.12.2016 | Autor Kaido Einama   -> Drucken

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