Robots which can identify colours will be created by 20 highschool teams in Woodstock Tuesday.
WOODSTOCK - Students across Oxford County are gearing up for the ninth annual Oxford Invitational Youth Robotics Challenge.
Event and Media Coordinator Michael Harding says the challenge will be similar to robotic tasks carried out every day in automotive assembly plants.
"The competition is to develop a robot that recognizes three different colours and places those three different colours in a different part of the track that they are going to build. They have got to figure out how to program it, how to make it work reliably in order to score a gold point. The other thing that they have to do is make a video to explain the process -- under ten minutes on that one -- and a written proposal all of which are judged separately."
"We want to have it as much as possible to replicate a real world experience," said Harding. "They have a mentor -- people who are in business and industry -- not do it, but help them engineer the solution."
20 teams from 18 schools will test their skills Tuesday (November 25th) at Goff Hall.
Judging starts at 3:00 pm and it's open to the public.
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