35 finalists battle it out at e-Yantra Robotics Competition

The competition aimed to promote robotics education and encouraged students to develop skills in embedded systems, programming, and mechatronics.

As many as 3,252 teams comprising around 12,000 students registered for e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC) conducted by IIT Bombay. The competition aimed to promote robotics education and encouraged students to develop skills in embedded systems, programming, and mechatronics. The competition was open to students from engineering colleges across India.   

A total of 35 finalists battled it out with their final projects for a collective prize amount of INR 1 crore that includes robotic kits, cash prizes, goodies and the chance to win a summer internship at e-Yantra. 

The robotics competition is part of the e-Yantra project hosted at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department of IIT Bombay and funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE). The mission and vision of e-Yantra is to train students for skills beyond formal theoretical and experimental courses through task-based learning (TBL) to solve real-world problems using technology. 

This year, 3,252 teams comprising around 12,000 students registered for eYRC. The participants were trained in technical knowledge of robot operating system (ROS), drone control, machine learning, image processing, 3D designing, embedded systems, control systems design, functional programming, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) programming, geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing and much more during the six-month cycle of the 11th edition of this competition, launched in August 2022. 

After rigorous rounds of training, all 35 finalist teams from various institutions from smaller cities and towns such as Arasur (TN), Barton Hill (Kerala), Ichalkaranji (Maharashtra), Gorakhpur (UP), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), and Tiruchirappalli (TN), outshone many bigger institutions with their performances. 

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