KameRider EDU Den-O is proudly represented by nine final-year undergraduate students from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FSCIT), Universiti Malaya (UM).
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in intelligent Robots, AI and Automation. The hosting country of RoboCup rotates around various continents. This year is Asia’s turn, and Thailand is honoured to host RoboCup 2022 from 13-17 July at Bangkok’s BITEC Hall 98 – 100.
According to the team’s mentor Dr Zati Hakim Azizul Hasan from Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FSCIT), KameRider EDU Den-O is the RoboCup@Home Education’s 2nd place winner with their Jupiter Robot open-source platform beating six other teams from Egypt and Thailand in the final round.
“The KameRider EDU Den-O is borne from KameRider EDU a flagship initiative to advocate and cultivate AI Robotics among Malaysian students promoting strategic engagement in higher education. KameRider EDU lays a foundation for long-term collaboration and shared expertise between its partner universities and robotics centre.
“KameRider EDU Den-O pays attention to the challenges in designing and developing home service robots. A home service robot is a robot that helps humans to perform practical tasks at home. Home service robots have several vital functionalities, like human-robot interaction and cooperation, navigation and mapping in dynamic environments, computer vision and object recognition under natural light conditions, object manipulation, adaptive behaviours, behaviour integration, ambient intelligence, standardization and system integration.
“The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the world’s largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots. RoboCup@Home Education is a unique education program in the context of a simplified RoboCup@Home competition oriented on forming new teams and preparing them to boost RoboCup@Home participation and AI-focused service robot development, she said.”
Dr Zati added that KameRider EDU Den-O is proof that gender can be equal in STEM education. The UM team is uniquely represented by six females and three male students and is the only competing team at Robocup 2020 with a 2:1 ratio of female to male. All nine students each carry an AI Robotic Final Year Project under my supervision aiming to elevate robotic applications for social/home services for the local community.
Dr Zati and her students are currently communicating with UMMC primary care for potential robotic collaborations, an initiative led by KameRider EDU Den-O’s biggest supporter, Prof Dr Loo Chu Kiong, Dean of FCSIT. There is also RoboCup 2023 to look up to, which takes place on 6-10 July at the Bordeaux Exhibition Center, France.
