Students from 45 schools and over 100 prototypes at the Fondazione Mondo Digitale event with Ucbm
18 April 2018 - From robots that imitate the behavior of plants and fish to prostheses that try to restore tactile sensations to human beings. It now seems impossible to separate the reflection on robotics from that on life sciences: an inseparable combination that characterized the twelfth edition of Rome Cup, organized by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in collaboration with theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
At the multi-event that took place in UCBM on 16 and 17 April with the participation of 5000 visitors the University contributed - as well as with interactive talks, contests, prototypes and projects - giving the event an international profile by involving it in the opening conference in the great hall UCBM three of the leading robotics experts on the planet.
In fact, the teacher opened the dances of the event Maria Chiara Carrozza of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Oussama Khatib of Stanford University, creator of Ocean One, the underwater humanoid robot that has recovered archaeological finds in the Mediterranean at a depth of almost 100 meters, Robert Riener of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, organizer of the first Olympics for cyber athletes, e Nitish V. Thakor of the National University of Singapore, bioengineer specialized in interface systems for advanced upper limb prostheses.
Then, inside the classrooms UCBM and an exhibition area dotted with 51 stands with the presence of 135 demonstration prototypes, a dense two days with 22 educational workshops, contests organized by the Roman universities in collaboration with high school students, 12 interactive and university orientation talks.
The competitions of the International Trophy of the City of Rome for Robotics and the national selections for the robotics world championship scheduled for June in Canada, culminating then with the final stages and the award ceremony in the Capitol on April 18 in the presence of the Rector UCBM Raffaele Calabrò.
During the event which attracted students from 45 schools from 5 different countries to Trigoria, the competition also influenced the business world with the Open Innovation Challenge, a session promoted by Lazio Innova in which different teams compared themselves on five related challenges the life sciences. The winner was the "Calm & Track" project ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, an idea to provide updates to the families of patients in the emergency room. The students and researchers involved will now be able to access Lazio Innova's support for development and prototyping and compete for the final prize of 20.000 euros for the most innovative service in the bio-medical field.
