Iranian students design robots

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Source: CCTV.com | 02-12-2009 11:04

Students in Iran have been designing and building robots that can play a piano, kick a ball, and hunt through rubble for earthquake survivors.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for more technological development in the country.

A variety of robots from football players to one that plays a piano.

Students at Alborz school in downtown Tehran showed their designs in a competition with rival pupils.

Robotics is part of the school's curriculum and schools provide the students with workshops.

The competition showed a variety of robots from football players to one that plays a piano.

Others equip their robots with capabilities such as a metal cutter or flame thrower.

This month an exhibition was held to showcase Iranian inventors and their working designs including a rescue robot, a musician and talking robots.

Ehsan Hosseini Pajooh, robot designer, said, "Our robot is a rescue robot for helping people trapped in debris in earthquake-hit areas or in other accidents where it is impossible for humans to go. It can detect injured people as it is programmed to detect sound and visioStudents in Iran have been designing and building robots that can play a piano, kick a ball, and hunt through rubble for earthquake survivors.