“HIT Cup”, the 16th National Robot Championship, the 5th International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games, was held on HIT from July 28th to July 30th, which attracted more than 500 teams from over 60 universities to attend including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Sichuan University, Nanjing University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology and etc. Our team, HfutEngine, directed by Professor Wang Hao and Associate Professor Fang Baofu competed in the events of ‘Solo dance’, ‘Pas de deux’, ‘Sprint’, ‘Obstacle race’, ‘Penalty kick’ and ‘Picking up rubbish’, and won the first prizes of ‘Picking up rubbish’, ‘Solo dance’ and ‘Obstacle race’, and second prizes of the other three.

Service robot has an awfully significant value in assisting human beings, thus attracting special attention of scholars at home and abroad. The competition of ‘Picking up rubbish’ requires high coordination between vision and operation for robots, involving high-techonology. With much work of program debugging before the competition, full preparation for possible emergency and quick response to the circumstance of the court after arriving at the spot, our team made an almost consummate completion of a series of motions using 55 seconds, including searching for the rubbish, picking up it, finding the trash can and throwing it into the can ultimately. It was a pity to be defeated by Huazhong University of Science and Technology by 4 seconds. As for the competition of ‘Pas de deux’, the fantastic choreography began with Scarborough Fair song, making a mixture with the pop music Little Apples, fully showed the soft and passion of robot dance, finally enabled our team to step onto the third stage of the award podium.

National Robot Championship is hosted by Robot Soccer Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and now 16 sessions have been held since its initiation. National Robot Championship and RoboCupChinawhich is hosted by Robot Competition Committee of China Automation Association, are hailed as two top robot contests inChinaorganized by authoritative academic organizations and receive wide participation of universities and institutions ofChina.