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News from the Faculty Spotlight on autonomous Prof. George Karniadakis (right) and Dr. Vikram Singh from
cars at the annual the CFD Lab
The section was Robotraffic competition
prepared in New studies and overseas
collaboration ROBOTICS FOR YOUTHS A thousand students guests at the CFD conference
with the from Israel and abroad participated in the Nadav
Technion Shoham Robotraffic Competition, which took place RESIDENCY AT CFD The Computational Fluid
Spokesperson for the 10th time in March 2019. The program seeks Dynamics (CFD) Conference, held for the fifth time
to provide knowledge and skills related to driving in July 2019 and presided over by Prof. Steven
safety and to reduce the involvement of young Frankel, presented the research of students and
drivers in road accidents. This year’s participants researchers from the faculty’s CFD lab. The keynote
were asked to develop autonomous cars that can speaker was Brown University’s Prof. George
navigate urban environments. Acquiring robotics Karniadakis, who discussed the revolutionary
skills through their activity in the program, the interaction between computer simulations of
participants were tested on cautious driving, road physical systems and the growing world of machine
safety, driving laws, and their design of a robotic learning and artificial intelligence. The conference
solution to common traffic accidents, using the hosted two researchers who were the first
SolidWorks design system. participants of the CFD lab’s residency program. The
The competition, chaired by Prof. Moshe Shoham, two, Prof. Jan Nordström of Linköping University,
head of the Leumi Robotics Center at the Technion, Sweden, and Dr. Will Pazner of the Lawrence
and Dr. Evgeny Korchnoy, the center’s director, is Livermore National Laborator in California, gave
a collaboration between the center, the World ORT a series of lectures on high-accuracy numerical
network, the “Kadima Mada” organization, the methods.
World Zionist Organization, the Ytek organization,
and Eytam Robotics.
“Student groups from five schools participated
in the first contest, which took place ten years
ago. We now have 100 teams in an international
competition, and in recent years, regional
competitions were also held in Russia and
Ukraine,” says Prof. Shoham. “Tens of thousands
of students have already taken part in this program
and many of them have gone on to study at the
Technion—and from there, into the robotics
industry.”

The academic delegation during the official visit to South Korea

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