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Inside DJI's 'Robomasters' Robotics Competition (youtube.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the robotics-mayhem dept.

pacopico writes: Every year, DJI hosts a robotics competition called Robomasters. It draws in hundreds of engineering students from around the world for two weeks of all out robotics mayhem. The students build and then control robotic vehicles that blast away at each other with rubber bullets, while drones strafe from overhead. Bloomberg Businessweek did a short documentary on the competition and everything that goes with it, including a reality TV show, an anime series, and final battle attended by thousands of people at a stadium in Shenzhen. The Chinese teams usually do the best, and the winners get some money and sometimes a job offer at DJI -- all part of the country's quest to dominate the robotics industry in the years to come.

37 comments

  1. Re: In udda word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In udda words you made da kind of comment we have to wunda wut it meant

  2. Re: In udda word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah as confusing a comment as it gets

  3. Re: In udda word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Next year china is going to beat the us in terms of trade. The stats don't lie.

  4. slate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The best way to stop them is to remove their access to oil (energy).

    1. Re:slate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You idiot. China leads the world in photovoltaic panel production, and installed capacity. That lead is only going to grow. Their cities will be full of silent, self driving electric cars by 2030 and what are you doing? Figuring out how to give more subsidies to coal miners. America First!

    2. Re: slate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      China has bern emitting double the CO2 of the US for years now. You know their cars are not the biggest source of their pollution, right?

    3. Re: slate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You do know that he vast majority of Chinese industrial production is for export purposes right?

      That is your pollution they are breathing.

    4. Re: slate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      about 170 million 'merkins. armed.

    5. Re: slate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, and the idiot leftists cheated them dumping on the market to get a stranglehold on production.

  5. Re: In udda word CAPTCHA: vector by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The witches are casting their placebo effects about.

  6. Re: In udda word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh no! What happens when the arena is so messy they cant start the next event???

  7. Ah, yes, DJI. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WHO ?!

    Journalism 101

  8. Re: Donald Trump is a faggot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Of all the surreal comments on slashdot you have won the prize freak

  9. When will slashdot fix AC posting? by tomhath · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Require a person log in before being allowed to post anonymously, and apply moderation to their karma. Otherwise slashdot will continue to swirl around the drain until it disappears

    1. Re:When will slashdot fix AC posting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Under default settings, without being logged in, as of right now yours is the only comment visible.

      I had to know and understand the system to change settings and manually load all the troll/spam comments. Seems like moderation is working to me.

      I sure do wish I still had access to the email address I set up my original Slashdot account under. I'd have to start all over now, and I guess I'm just not ready for a higher user ID yet. But if it helps in this good fight, maybe it's the right thing to do.

    2. Re:When will slashdot fix AC posting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mod reasonable comments up, then all reasonable comments will show up at the default setting, unless you get more clicks from trolls as your business model.

    3. Re:When will slashdot fix AC posting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would just stop reading the comments. What's the point, if you can't even reply.

      Fuck registrations. I already have so many registrations in so many places, fucking hate it.

    4. Re:When will slashdot fix AC posting? by tomhath · · Score: 1

      Two problems with that suggestion:

      1) Down modding all those troll comments burns moderation points that should be used to up mod good comments.

      2) There are often good comments posted at Score 0 that I'd like to mod up, but that means I have to wade through all the crap.

  10. Re: Our favorite IT janitor was going to enter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is because he cant read. After decades of only getting notices on material safety and instructions on what to clean next he finally tried to read a simple picture book and his lips are still moving

  11. Requirements to be a robot by laosland · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "then control robotic vehicles" . Aren't robots supposed to be autonomous?

    1. Re:Requirements to be a robot by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Aren't robots supposed to be autonomous?

      The definition that stuck with me from childhood is that they had to make some decisions for themselves. Therefore your car is robotic. You give it some minimal inputs that let it know what you want, but it decides how to best achieve what you're asking for.

      Of course, that definition is slightly problematic when it comes to CNC. If a CNC machine has no feedback and it just controls the stepper motors in response to G-code, is it really making decisions, or is it just following instructions? Does that make an xyz plotter type CNC not a robot, but a delta type one because it decides how to get xyz from three Zs?

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    2. Re:Requirements to be a robot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As far as robotics contests go:

      -Robofest has 100% autonomous robots.
      -VEX has a very short period of autonomy, followed by remote control.
      -FIRST Robotics has a very short period of autonomy, followed by remote control.

      Most factory robots are autonomous, so the programming aspect of Robofest is very beneficial to students seeking work in these fields. My 2016 Robofest World Champions could program Fanuc robots with ease.

  12. Welcome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I, for one, welcome our Robomaster overlords!

  13. when will idiots stop trying to suppress ACs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    this isnt faggy soylent. that requirement is the stupidest thing on that site. it enforces the echo chamber, and chills free speech. if you don't like how /. currently works, you won't be missed. bye bye!

    1. Re:when will idiots stop trying to suppress ACs by tomhath · · Score: 1

      The suggestion wouldn't suppress AC commenting in any way, unless you are a Troll. Then your posts (AC or otherwise) will be posted at -1 automatically where they belong.

  14. Re: Donald Trump is a faggot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are the emo girl with a cucumber in her bum? It seems that you have something large in your rectum, and I cannot put my hand on it...

  15. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Meanwhile Americans think pee wee football and JROTC are the best ways to prepare your kids for life.

    I hate the despicable people who run China but they sure as hell are smarter than western leadership.

  16. Groundbots?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pffft.... I watched it expecting to see good things, but who the hell works with wheeled vehicles when ones that fly exist?! Yawn.