Australian company Actura is set to launch the inaugural global OneWorld Robotics Competition in November 2019, bringing together students from Years 7, 8 and 9 from around the world to solve real-world problems through robotics. 

Students from Singapore, Taiwan, China, New Zealand and Australia will be challenged to come up with solutions to the problems our cities and businesses are likely to face in the future, presenting to a panel of industry experts for adjudication. 

Subjects to contend with will include transport congestion, pollution, environmental sustainability and over-crowding. The Autonomous Vehicle will be a solution to many of these problems and students will consider the technical, legal, social and ethical solutions, including privacy and cybersecurity risks, through their technical application of robotics. 

A panel of industry leaders will judge the students based on Dr Tony Wagner’s 7 Survival Skills:

• critical thinking and problem solving; 
• collaboration across networks and leading by influence;
• agility and adaptability; 
• initiative and entrepreneurialism; 
• effective oral and written communication; 
• accessing and analysing information; and 
• curiosity and imagination. 

OneWorld Robotics Area Competitions begin in November this year.  The top three teams will then compete against one another in the Global Competition in March 2020. Certificates of participation will be awarded to all participants, with prize money and awards on offer for the Global Team winners and individual winners of the Future Skills Area sections. 

Actura has been acknowledged as one of the standouts in the small business technology world, recently nominated on APAC Business Headlines Magazine’s reputable list of “Ten Fastest Growing Robotics Technology Solution Providers to Watch for 2019”. 

Established in Australia in 2014, Actura's STEAM learning solutions have now empowered more than 3,000 students from over 300 schools internationally, including recently providing NASA’s Space Center Houston with its Robotic Learning Solution, FlipRobot. Actura seeks to become the most trusted STEAM education solution provider globally and has opened offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Shanghai and Taipei, with further international expansion on the horizon.

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