Robot battles spark creative new trend

Punching, kicking, rolling and falling to the ground – Taiwan’s Robot Boxing League gets off to a lively start. People from junior high onwards gather together to engage in some serious cerebral gymnastics, where they write computer programs and design wrestling robots. With robots now an integral part of each and every part of our lives, such activities are a great opportunity for kids and enthusiasts to take a closer look at robots.

With the ultimate aim of breaking into the international competition scene, players participating in Taiwan’s Robot Boxing League patiently stand their robots back up after each failure and correct each mistake to gather competition experience and exchange different technologies with other players. The tense atmosphere of such fighting contests not only provides participants with an environment in which to train split-second reactions but is also a lively way to promote robot education, which the organizers hope will attract more people into the world of robots and spark a new creative trend in robot technology.

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揮拳、橫踢、翻滾、倒地，台灣機器人格鬥聯盟熱鬧開打，從國中生到社會人齊聚一堂，選手們動腦書寫程式，設計出專屬的格鬥機器人。機器人現在已經深入到我們生活中每一個小細節，讓小朋友或是我們多接觸機器人，可以更瞭解機器人科技對我們的生活影響有多大。

一次次從失敗中站起，選手糾正每次錯誤，從競賽中累積經驗，與擁有不同技術的玩家切磋交流，朝國際舞台邁進。格鬥競賽營造緊張氣氛，不僅訓練參賽者的臨場反應也推廣生動的機器人教育，吸引更多人熱愛機器人，激盪出機器人科技的新火花。