Recently, results of the 25^th China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition hosted by the China Association of Artificial Intelligence were announced, engineering students of the Mechanical Department won two national first prizes in the national finals.

Instructors Wang Fengtao and Wu Jiajun of the Mechanical Department organized and guided students to participate in many projects such as "Simuro Football", "iLoboke Football" and "Aelos Human Standard Platform" of the 25^th China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition. After the provincial competition and the national finals, the "double team" composed of Luo Hongjie and Su Jintao and the "STU team" composed of Chen Zewei, Xie Tianhao and Geng Yu won the national first prize; the "rookie team" composed of Zheng Zihong, Zhang Fei and Zheng Zehong won the provincial third prize. Shantou University won the "Outstanding Organization Award", and Wang Fengtao and Wu Jiajun were both rated as "Outstanding Instructors".

The China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition is the first national discipline competition in China to organically combine the research and development and application of key technologies in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. The main purpose is to guide and encourage young students to carry forward the spirit of innovation, build a good platform for scientific and technological innovation, help the development of artificial intelligence and robot industry, promote the construction of "artificial intelligence +" and "robot +" new economic industrial system, and actively promote the majority of students to participate in robot and artificial intelligence scientific and technological innovation. Practice, improve the level of teamwork, and cultivate innovation and entrepreneurship. Through the competition, we have cultivated a group of scientific and technological elite talents who love innovation, are hands-on, able to cooperate and work hard. At present, a large number of compound talents who are "able to do", "dare to innovate" and "good at cooperation” have been trained for China. In April 2023, the competition was continuously selected into the “National General Institutes of Higher Education Discipline Competition Ranking” issued by the China Associate of Higher Education.

This competition began with registration in April this year and went through two stages: the provincial competition and the national finals. The preparation team makes full use of their spare time to train and improve, and has organized or participated in training activities including event rule analysis, event skills training, and on-campus competitions. In various training activities, the participating students gave full play to the spirit of hard work and innovation, steadily improved their own level, and finally achieved gratifying results in the national finals.