(VOVworld) – 32 teams from 45 universities nationwide are attending the final round of Vietnam Robot Contest (Robocon) 2013, which opened today/ on Monday in Da Nang. The week-long competition will select the best team to represent Vietnam at the Asia-Pacific Robocon, which will take place in the same city from August 16 to August 20. This year’s event, themed “Green Planet”, conveys the message that each country is a piece of a puzzle that makes up the globe.

Each team, with its automatic and manual robots, cultivates seedlings at pre-determined positions to win points (Photo: thethao.vietnamnet.vn)

Under the Robocon rules, each team has to cultivate seedlings at pre-determined positions, a task that requires creativity and skill of controlling robots.