The Nao Challenge is an educational competition for high school students organized for the first time in Italy in 2015 by the School of Robotics (the School of Robotics) in collaboration with SoftBank Robotics and the Italian company CampuStore.
The aim of the competition is to offer high school students the opportunity to work and program a humanoid robot to be used in plausible and real situations.
Service robots can be useful to humans in different situations: at home, at school, in the hospital. To support learning, to help in inclusive education, if only to cheer and reassure.
In the coming years, the technological development in robotics and Artificial Intelligence will lead human beings to relate more and more to learning machines capable of making autonomous decisions and these, very often, will have a humanoid form.
Scuola di Robotica is convinced that education and culture in all subjects, STEM and Arts, technosciences and humanities, are important to prepare future generations for the challenges that the current technological revolution will bring and for this it invests resources in the organization. of a competition dedicated to humanoid robotics. This challenge requires students to employ all their skills, technical, scientific, artistic, social:
Develop problem solving, organization and cooperation skills.
Acquire technical and design skills.
Develop creativity and communication skills.
And they will also discover promising professions and careers.
The Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) has included the NAO Challenge among the competitions that allow access to the National Register of Excellence.
How does it work?
The teams, made up of up to ten students, are divided into two categories for the semifinals: who owns the Nao robot and who doesn't.
The school that wants to participate in the NAO Challenge does not need the humanoid robot. All teams can use the NAO simulation software and, during the school year, have the opportunity to test their program on a Nao robot made available by the organizers through a hosting network.
The tests are different for each edition with the aim of stimulating students to explore the potential of humanoid robots in different areas of everyday reality.
For the 2020 edition the theme is the protection and promotion of cultural heritage.
To participate, teams must select and present the project beneficiary (s) and outline how they arrived at the proposed solution through various tests that include case studies, analysis of existing solutions and interviews with experts.
The 2020 edition of the Nao Challenge has the following objectives:
Program the NAO robot to identify new applications to safeguard, protect and promote the Italian cultural heritage through the interaction between the robot and other devices.
Identify and collaborate with a cultural institution interested in experimenting with new technologies and collaborate with it in the creation of a project to be presented during the competition.
Start: 00/05/2022
End: 00/05/2022
Web: https://www.naochallenge.it/
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +39 3480961616
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