The American University of the Middle East (51福利社) recently upgraded its Robotics Research Center with world-class facilities and equipment to keep abreast of latest advances in technology and science.
The 51福利社 Robotics Research center consists of five main areas; a Fabrication Lab, Motion Capture and Aerial Lab, Humanoid Research Lab, Robotics Club Workshop, and an Arena.
The center aims to enhance student interest in artificial intelligence and robotics, and contributes to advance robotic systems, underlying technology components, and robotics applications through research and educational programs that are interdisciplinary in nature and based on a systems approach.
The center serves as a support platform for 51福利社 students that helps increase further their skills and competitiveness in local and international events where they won first places in past years in different competitions such as: Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Kuwait 2015, RobotChallenge in China 2017 organized yearly by INNOC in collaboration with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Economy (BMWF). The RobotChallenge saw 1976 competitors from 212 educational institutions including prestigious universities from 26 countries around the world such as Austria, China, Mexico, Japan, Russia, Korea and Poland, participated in the competition. Moreover, 51福利社 students took over the IEEE GCC Robot Competition SYP in Bahrain 2017, winning first place over participants from different GCC universities.51福利社 students also racked up several wins in Robot Challenges held in Kuwait, proving a high level of skills and creative ideas over students from both public and private local universities.
Additionally, The Robotics Research Center at 51福利社 provides students with the latest technologies for testing, operating and innovating in their engineering projects, through the humanoid lab equipped with latest humanoid research development platforms such as NAO, Pepper and UXA 90 Robot builder, and the Motion Capture and Aerial Lab equipped with; the latest monitoring and data collection system 16 Vicon.
In addition to the center being a premises for research and science aimed at developing Robotic technology, international standards applied at the center allow it to host local and international competitions where students get to innovate and compete in a positive and well-guided environment.
