The Montenegrin team is ready for the robotics competition in Mexico. The robot is also ready, but they could not show it, because it will be premiered there. The team consists of three high school students. Dragan Todorović, a student of the Electrical School in Podgorica and two students of the "Mladost" High School in Tivat, Anto Petrović and Darko Vuković.
"We are confident that we will be in the top five, we will see what the competition brings us," says Anto Petrović.
Coordinators and mentors of the project are ETF student Nina Drakulić and teaching associate at that faculty Nikola Bulatović.
"We all received the same material, the First Global Challenge organization gives it to all countries, and we design and program that robot from the beginning ourselves. The robot must not exceed the dimensions of 50 by 50 by 50, everything else is the fruit of our imagination and work. Therefore, we should collect those boxes that will activate the energy of windmills and thermal furnaces and power plants and solar panels," Drakulić said.
"The biggest difficulty was counting the parts, what we can do with them, because it is not very easy, you are limited to the parts and then your imagination has to put it all together. And were there any problems, if you imagined that the robot could to do something, and then he can't? Of course it was a lot, whoever does it makes mistakes," Petrović said.
Last year they participated in the competition in Washington, they were 13th out of 165 countries. And robotics is an interesting field, which is advancing at a high speed.
"Artificial intelligence is taking the lead in almost everything, I'm honestly a little afraid of that, I think one day it will replace humanity, but I hope we won't leave ourselves to robots alone," said Drakulić.
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