Singapore, June 24 (CNA) Taiwanese teenagers have again shone in an international robot competition, with three teams taking the top awards Thursday in various categories of the 2010 RoboCup.
Kuo Chung-chou, the coach who led one of the Taiwanese teams participating in the event, told CNA that the three teams took first place in the 7-14 age group, the 15-18 age group and the open group in the event being held June 19-25 in Singapore.
According to Kuo, the elementary and junior and senior high school students are from the Taipei and Nantou areas.
Their excellent performance in RoboCup indicates that Taiwan's youth plays a leading role in this field, according to Kuo.
"The competition has helped inspire Taiwan youth to pursue scientific research and Taiwan has performed well in previous events, " he said, pointing out that Taiwanese teams also seized top awards in RoboCup 2005 and RoboCup 2006.
Vanessa Shih, Taiwan's envoy to Singapore, immediately sent her congratulations to the teams after hearing about their success.
RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1997. The aim is to develop autonomous soccer robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, the Robot Soccer World Cup.
