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Mobile Robotics

Designing, building, and maintaining robots to solve problems in industries from manufacturing to aerospace, mining to medicine.

Why is this skill important?

Mobile Robotics is a fast evolving, solutions orientated, industry within which the robotics/technologist is a significant and growing work role. Mobile robotics is an important part of the future, with applications in everyday life, diverse industries, including autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, agriculture, aerospace, mining, and medicine.

A robotics technologist works in offices, manufacturing plants or laboratories; he or she designs, maintains, develops new applications and conducts research to expand the potential for robots. The role begins with a strong focus on a specific business problem, in a particular sector. For example, in manufacturing there may be a need to increase capacity by creating robots for tasks that can be automated. Mobile robots may also be designed to explore areas that are inaccessible or dangerous for human beings.

Careful, deep client consultation is required, resulting in an accurate specification. The design phase follows and a prototype is assembled. The robot is then programmed and tested to ensure high, consistent performance. At the heart of every robot is a robotics technologist who thinks about what a robot needs to do and works with several disciplines to design and put together the optimal piece of equipment, demonstrating a commitment to attention to detail. In this instance the robotics technologist uses existing technologies to create solutions to new challenges.

Robotics technologists must be familiar with logic, microprocessors, computer programming, mechanical, electrical, and control system so that they can design and prototype the right robot for each application. They must also prepare specifications for the robot's capabilities as they relate to the everyday life. In addition, robotics technologists are responsible for cost efficient design, cost-price calculations and quality-control.

Integral to the role of the high performing robotics technologist are a range of skills related to work organization and self-management. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a particular strength in working well in a team, are equally important. An ability to be innovative and creative in resolving technological challenges and generating solutions is also essential.

Working across sectors internationally and being able to transfer analytical skills is a feature of the excellent robotics technologist, together with a commitment to continuing specialist, and professional development and a determination to resolve problems through experimenting and risk taking within self-managed boundaries. In an increasingly global industry, which is ‘breaking new ground’ and altering the way we live and work, there are significant opportunities for sustainable careers in robotics. The opportunities carry with them the need to work with diverse cultures, industries and fast paced technological change. The diversity of skills associated with robotics technologists is likely to expand.

Location

Bordeaux, France

19–22 October 2022

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Rank	Medal	Result	Competitor	Country/Region
1.	Gold	803	Kunpeng Hou Gaoyuan Tang	China
2.	Silver	787	Youngseo Kwak Hanho Gwak	Korea
3.	Bronze	769	Ryo Iwamoto Koki Kawakami	Japan
4.	Medallion for Excellence	742	Muhammed Faisal Poolakunnan Muhammed Siyad Palayi	India
5.	Medallion for Excellence	724	Hao-Chun Chang Yi-Feng Lin	Chinese Taipei
6.	Medallion for Excellence	717	Andrés Camilo Pulido Gonzalez Omar Alexis García Falla	Colombia
7.	Medallion for Excellence	711	Marvin Gornicec Florian Rauch	Austria
7.	Medallion for Excellence	711	Rashed Shah Ahmad Alhashmi	United Arab Emirates
9.	Medallion for Excellence	700	Ka Kit Gavin Lui Hok Ming Cheng	Hong Kong, China
10.		698	Yerniyaz Kurmanbekov Yerassyl Nurekenov	Kazakhstan
11.		694	Antti Alenius Arttu Leppänen	Finland
12.		689	Erfan Mollamohammadi Ravari Abolfazl Asadi Karam	Iran
12.		689	Antoine Gros Lucas Si Larbi	France
14.		680	Mikhail Solomons Laeeq Jefferies	South Africa
15.		677	Sonya Hill Jeovany Graham	Jamaica
16.		676	Salman Nasser Qahtani Mohammed Alnuwaiser	Saudi Arabia
17.		673	Suhrob Khaydarov Ilkhom Askarov	Uzbekistan