Spheres robots
Robot competition in zero-gravity School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station. Student teams could send a single piece of instruction software to control the small robotic 'Spheres'. The goal of the tournament was to earn points through masterful operation via guidance and navigation control algorithms as well as choosing the best tactics to win the game. This year's winner an alliance consisting of teams CyberAvo, Ultima and Lazy, a collaboration of three schools from Turin, Italy and Berlin, Germany. Astronauts Don Pettit and André Kuipers set up the individual matches in Japan's Kibo laboratory on the Space Station and enjoyed the spectacle. The Spheres are controlled via laptops but once the software has been sent to the robot it cannot be changed.
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