The Russian team has become a two-time world champion in underwater robotics

Last weekend, international competitions on remote-controlled uninhabited underwater vehicles (underwater robots) MATE International ROV Competition 2012 were held in Orlando, Florida.
The team from Vladivostok became the champion of the competition, thus becoming by now the two-time world champion.



These are the fifth competitions in which a team from Vladivostok takes part.
Performance history:
2008 - 8th place;
2009 - 4th place;
2010 - 1st place;
2011 - 4th place;
2012 - 1 place.
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This is the FEFU student team (formerly always the joint team of the Far Eastern State University and the Far Eastern State Technical University), which is being taught by the staff of the Institute of Marine Technology Problems





Competition regulations (if anyone is interested).

Technical details of the remote-controlled robot of the winning team (until the file has been removed from the public access).

Well, the prize podium 2012:

Explorer class overall winners 1st place Far Eastern Federal University,
2nd place Purdue University,
3rd place Jesuit High School

You can congratulate moun .

UPD: Past articles on this topic:
Article 1 (about 2009) ;
Article 2 (technical characteristics of the robot in 2010) ;
Article 3 (report of the first victory) ;
Article 4 (video of the competition) .