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The RomeCup 2015 kicked off yesterday with a conference on “Robotics, Start-ups and Technology for Work” involving students with new entrepreneurial ideas and nine new robotics companies. Here is the report produced by the ANSA Press Agency:
High-tech pet houses that can be controlled via smartphone to take care of our cats and dogs (even when we are on vacation), fireproof robots that aid firemen or oil cleaning robots … these are all entrepreneurial ideas developed by students that will be presented at the RomeCup, gathering “Excellence in Robotics in Rome.”
From March 25 to 27, the RomeCup has organized conferences, laboratories, a showcase area and competitions with over 100 teams from 11 Italian Regions, including the Rome Istituto Galilei World Champion 2014.
"It’s called Hipet. It’s a technologica pet house for cats and dogs,” explain Leonardo Pace and Matteo Petrangeli, two students from the Itis Faraday School in Rome, presenting their entrepreneurial project to the public. "There are no domotic pet houses on the market,” they emphasized. “Our idea is to create pet houses that can control the temperature, weigh the pet, feed it, provide it with waster and come equipped with a videocamera and GPS."
For the moment, it’s only an idea, but thanks to the tools available at the Fab Lab that has been inaugurated in this Roman school, the students aim to bring their idea to the market. Hipet is one of the 5 projects, including a drone to clean oil-polluted water and the Icaro fire robot, which students presented at the opening conference of RomeCup 2015.
"This year’s edition,” explains Alfonso Molina, Professor of Technology Strategy, University of Edinburgh and Scientific Director, Fondazione Mondo Digitale, “aims to bring students into closer touch with the working world through participation in enterprises and start-ups. We need to promote the innovative ideas that emerge from school.”
Hundreds of competitions will also take place during the three-day event that will end on Friday, March 27 at the Rome Campidoglio. Robots built by students will compete in a range of categories side by side with conferences on didactics and youth enterprise and a showcase area presenting projects developed by research centres, universities and students.
Also see: Al via RomeCup 2015, mostre e gare su droni e robot (in Italian)
