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Thai children win the NASA astronaut assistant robot control championship

Thai Rath Edition

28 Oct. 2021 08:30

Dr. Chularat Tanprasert, Deputy Director of the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) revealed that NSTDA with partner agencies Supported the Indentation Erer youth team from Assumption College Thonburi consisting of Mr. Tharit Witworasakul, Mr. Kornpapop Sitthirit and Dr. Setthaphan Laoaree representing Thailand for the 2nd Kibo Robot Programming Challenge, the online Asian Championship. Broadcasting live from the Tsukuba Space Center. Japan, with 9 countries participating: Japan, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan andIt appears that the Indentation Err team won the Best Achievement Onboard Award for showing their ability to program computers in JAVA language to control Astrobee, NASA’s assistant astronauts aboard the International Space Station, to read QR codes. Code and fire a laser beam at the target.

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