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Vocational Talent Show

Robot vehicles zip through a tabletop maze, quickly rerouting when their path comes to a dead-end, successfully reaching the destination in just a few seconds and drawing cheers from designers and spectators. This is the maze robot competition that kicked off in Tianjin Bohai Vocational Technology College (TBVTC) in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin on August 11.

Forty-four Chinese and foreign competitors formed mixed teams that competed both online and offline. Built-in algorithms enable the robots to navigate through the twists and turns of the maze. The TBVTC team won the top place in the competition.

“Through the competition,

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