HUTB Achieves Outstanding Results in 26th China Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Competition
2024-08-30
Recently, the national finals of the 26th China Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Competition (CRAIC) were held in Suzhou and Yixing. After a rigorous selection process through university, provincial, and national preliminary rounds, our university advanced with 17 teams qualifying for the national finals. After intense competition, we achieved remarkable results, winning 5 first prizes, 7 second prizes, and 5 third prizes. Notably, we secured the national championship in the humanoid robot (physical competition) and four-legged rapid logistics (robot dog) events.
In recent years, the university has aligned itself with the strategic priorities of the country under the visionary leadership of the Party Committee. By leveraging the National Center for Basic Science project, Xiangjiang Laboratory and other high-caliber scientific and technological innovation platforms, we have been vigorously developing new engineering programs. Also, we have been experimenting with talent development modes featuring "Digital Intelligence+" "Green+" and "Artificial Intelligence+". By implementing programs such as the "Xiangjiang Academy - Hong Class", the "Academician Elite program", and the "Major + Micro-Major" programs, we focus on the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. We integrate cutting-edge technologies and research projects into our talent development system and explore a "project-based practical + competition integration" teaching model. This approach has significantly fostered interdisciplinary and innovative talents, yielding notable results.
Since March of this year, our university has organized over 70 students majoring in artificial intelligence. With the support of major projects like the humanoid robot (embodied intelligence) program at Xiangjiang Laboratory, faculty and students have worked tirelessly for five months, conducting in-depth research in the fields of robot control and artificial intelligence algorithms. They have continuously innovated algorithm models and optimized various technical parameters. Each participating team overcame numerous challenges in events such as humanoid robots, urban autonomous driving, robot soccer, and intelligent pharmacy robots. Through diligent study and hard work, they persevered and ultimately achieved excellent results in the finals after successfully navigating university, provincial, and national preliminary rounds. CRAIC, which began in 1999, is a longstanding and widely influential national academic competition that has cultivated a large number of hands-on, innovative, and collaborative interdisciplinary talents in our country. This year, it attracted nearly a thousand universities, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Harbin Institute of Technology, with over 10,000 students participating. The 26th CRAIC Humanoid Robot Innovation Challenge, hosted by the CRAIC Organizing Committee, adheres to the philosophy of "promoting research through the competition, promoting industrial production through research, and pooling collective wisdom to tackle challenges". The competition is designed to promote the integration of upstream and downstream value chain ecosystems, and to accelerate the mass production of humanoid robots by focusing on typical domestic and specialized application scenarios. The competition closely mirrors real-world scenarios, and has created a number of "firsts" in its design. This is the first competition to transition from simulated to authentic domestic and specialized application scenarios. It is also the first competition in fully automated task management, and the first to introduce generative large-model LLM task planning assessment in a competition. By incorporating industrial and real-life application scenarios into the humanoid robot competition, the event aims to capitalize on the strengths of diverse research domains, collaboratively addressing complex challenges in future universal application scenarios. This would facilitate the transition of humanoid robots from virtual to real-world applications and from technological innovation to industrial application, expediting the mass production and widespread adoption of these robots.
Since our university's team began participating in 2019, we have consistently won the national first prize for six consecutive years, highlighting the outstanding talent development outcomes in our robotics and artificial intelligence programs.
