National Robot Olympics

The UAE's young zany scientists are building robots to help protect the environment.

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00:00These are the UAE's zany scientists of the future.

00:24Don't be fooled by the boyish looks.

00:26Their brains are busy computing complex mathematical problems and they're on a mission to build

00:31a robot that can help solve the pressing environmental issues of our age.

00:35They were representing their schools at the National Robot Olympiad in Abu Dhabi and showing

00:39off their creations.

00:40Hi, I'm Sai Gokul.

00:42So this is our model.

00:43It's called the Poseidon.

00:44It's basically a water model which floats and it works to prevent water pollution in

00:49the world, lakes and ponds and all these.

00:53I mean it has a claw, which its main function of the claw is to pick up objects on the surface

00:57of the water and even below the surface of the water.

01:01And it uses gears to actually move the claw and it uses the motor to lower it.

01:06The global awareness, the global environment is the theme that they're trying to work towards

01:11and they're trying to incorporate robotic design into a global awareness theme.

01:16So how well do they match those two things together is one of the things we're looking

01:20at.

01:22This robot is made, it depends on the sense of sound.

01:28We'll try it.

01:34And this is what it's all about, the silverware.

01:37OK, so some of it's made out of Lego, but the winning team of the advanced category

01:41will jet off to Japan for the World Robot Olympiad.

01:44They'll pit their creations against the best robots from around the world.

01:48So with the judging over, these engineering masterminds will head back to their workshop

01:52and get ready for Japan.

01:53Ashraf Helmi, Gulf News.