Programming Competition In Science And Technology Museum: How To Create AI Education "Olympic Games"

In the winter of Beijing, the two floor of the China Science and Technology Museum is crowded. Nearly 400 primary and secondary students gathered around a mini green field accompanied by parents and instructors. They participated in a robot soccer competition with the theme of "green boy".

The competition design of the green kid is tested by the students' mechanical structure design, motion control and teamwork ability: the two robots of the team need to cooperate with each other and compete with the two robots of the other teams to compete for the honor of "green boy".

The full name of the competition is the 2019 Robo Genius Global Youth robotics challenge (Robo Genius), which is hosted by artificial intelligence and humanoid robot. It began to enter the field of artificial intelligence and robot education in 2016.

"Our expectation for Robo Genius is to make it the Olympic Games for AI education." Zhong Yong, senior vice president of technology and product and solutions department, said in an interview with reporters during the event.

Interpretation of "racing with learning"

It was founded in 2012. It has been invested by Cheng Xuan investment, Qiming venture capital, CDH capital, Tencent and many other institutions. In May 2018, the financing value of C was 5 billion USD.

Up to now, in the field of AI and robotics, the company has completed many integrated artificial intelligence and robotics educational products and service systems including curriculum, hardware teaching aids, teaching materials, competition activities, teacher training and AI laboratory construction.

Competition is an important part of the AI system and robot education system. The company has worked with IEEE to host a robot design competition for universities. It also held a RISS robotics challenge for three consecutive years with the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

The Robo Genius was launched in June 2019, mainly for K12 students. Robo Genius also became a tournament partner in the world robotics competition in 2019.

Su Qing, the party secretary and deputy curator of the China Science and Technology Museum, said at the closing ceremony of the Robo Genius, "sports activities can cultivate children's ability to work together, meet contingency and deal with setbacks. This is the psychological skill they can't grasp in school books."

"Competition is the output of the whole teaching process, and it is a very important link in the whole system." Zhong Yong revealed that the future will continue to iterate and update other events, introduce partners, improve the education system, and help more young people master the basic skills to deal with the future AI era.

Decoding "AI hard programming"

Education is the important landing scene of AI+ robot. Zhong Yong believes that artificial intelligence and robotics are very important tools and driving forces in the new technological revolution. "We hope to cultivate the quality of the future for our children".

In the same period of the layout of education business, many children's programming education track has entered a rapid development stage from the budding stage.

"Starting from 2018, we began to design the whole product by educating people. Specifically, the idea of "AI hard programming" is based on the combination of artificial intelligence and robot hardware, with the development strategy of programming attributes. When it comes to the product thinking and the differentiated path of the best choice programming education business, Zhong Yong analysis shows that the robot is the best carrier to undertake AI learning, and the advantage of AI and robot education is that it is the combination of hardware and software.

This time and Zhong Yong shared the interview with the chief brand officer of Tan Bao technology, tan tan. Tan Min joined the best candidate in the middle of 2018. He previously served as president of Ogilvy fashion CEO and Ogilvy Garth China.

"We continue to explore and keep doors open one after another. When you cross the river, you need to explore the stones together, so you can see that we have done a lot of things. He talked about the ecological layout of the best choice.