Waiakea High’s Robotics Team Captures First Place

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Waiakea High School’s robotics team this month took a first-place award in the 16th annual International Microbot competition held in Japan.

Facing off against several college teams from across Asia, students representing the Hilo school won the Fully Autonomous Micro Robot Maze Competition with a robot named Teeny Humuhumu.

The team took third place in the Micro Robot Racer competition with a robot named Stich.05; fifth place, Remote Controlled Micro Robot Maze Competition, with Teeny Humuhumu; and a special judges’ award for best effort.

The competition revolved around the building and control of miniature robots. One challenge restricted volume to one cubic inch. A more rigorous challenge set the bar at one cubic centimeter.

Waiakea alumnus and UH-Manoa graduate Riley Ceria – now a CalTech Sub-Millimeter Observatory electrical engineer – served as a mentor for the students.

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Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots. Robotics is related to the sciences of electronics, engineering, mechanics mechatronics, and software
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Robotics Short Story

The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"

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