Mangaluru: SJEC Wins Championship at International Robowars Event at IIT Bombay
Mangaluru: A team comprising of alumni and students of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC) brought laurels to the college by winning the Overall Championship at International Robowars event held at IIT Bombay.
Robowars at IIT Bombay’s annual Techfest is India's Largest Robot Combat Competition where participants from around the globe battle it out for the coveted Robowars Champion Title.
This year, at Techfest 2020, a new weight category of 8kg was introduced in Robowars for the first time in India. SOLIC, a start-up company based out of SJEC, which mainly deals with Electronic and Robotic projects, in association with Team Terrorbull Robotics, a collegiate club at SJEC, built a combat Bot named ‘Raptor’ and competed in 8kg category at Robowars 2020.
On the way to the podium finish, the team had to face the challenge of 32 teams that took part in the competition.
The Bot that was praised for its stability, looks, aggression and the unique weapon design was designed by Joyson M D’Souza, Mechanical Designing Engineer at SOLIC.
Though building the bot with a weight limit 8kgs was a challenging task, the team managed to implement the full-fledged Electronics setup thereby making the bot completely ready for the combat.
The Electronics design was done by Christon Kenneth D’Souza and Sujan Shetty, Co-Founders of SOLIC. The Bot was controlled by Veekshith Shetty, a student of SJEC and a member of Team Terrorbull Robotics.
The management of St Joseph Engineering College is proud of the team and congratulates them on their outstanding efforts.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
